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Pretty Is What Changes

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cover of Pretty Is What ChangesPretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny

author: Jessica Queller
asin: 0385520409
binding: Hardcover
list price: $24.95 USD
amazon price: $16.47 USD


A timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live?


     
     
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An important proposed mastectomy law change

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I just heard about a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act which will require insurance companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy.

This bill is about eliminating the 'drive-through mastectomy' where women are forced to go home just a few hours after surgery, against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy from anesthesia and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached.