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[quote=Anonymous]I'm fed up with how hard WRA in Va pushes the 3d mammo. It is an unnecessary upsell and every time I turned around this week someone was trying to sell me on it. I felt like I was dealing with group of desperate amway salespersons. One of the staff seemed bothered that I didn't choose 3d. There are posters in every room and corner touting it. Every person I encountered brought it up.

I got a call back. I noticed on both visits that their waiting room had only one or two other patients each time I was there. The waiting room and changing rooms were almost completely empty.

I have cysts. The doctor gave me the whole 3d mammo song and dance and said there are fewer callbacks with 3d. As I asked more questions she contradicted herself and said there may be more with 3d.

I won't go back to WRA. I'm going back to my old imaging group that didn't pull this shit. They also did this dramatic thing of having me sign off on the paper that the doctor gives you that tells you what they find BEFORE the doctor looked at me. The assistant kept pushing me to do it, implying I would be too emotional after it was done.

We are a customer base easily manipulated with fear and poorly explained statistics.  I've been reading about the hysteria and incorrect "facts" used to sell more mammograms and to sell new technologies. The data isn't there and each of us hands over our $50 hoping it keeps the boogyman away. It doesn't. It just helps WRA's bottom line as women move away from yearly mammograms. [/quote]

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