| April 2006 · Vol. 18, No. 4 LETTERS
A true story: Doing the right thing paid off
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Fast Track
“The plaintiff was advised to have mammography 4 times over 2.5 years; she never did until a mass was palpated”
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After reading the article, “Cutting the legal risk of breast cancer screening,” by Dr. Samuel Zylstra and colleagues (September 2005), I decided to let you know about a recent lawsuit I was involved in. Perhaps it will remind those of us in the trenches that doing the right thing occasionally pays off.
When a 41-year-old patient complained of breast pain around the left nipple, and observed that it felt similar to the puerperal mastitis she had experienced 3 years earlier, I told her to have a mammogram, placed her on antibiotics, and reexamined her 2 weeks later, at which time I palpated a mass.
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