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Title: Transgressive Healthcare - Redux
Post by: Shana A on August 01, 2010, 06:22:03 PM
Transgressive Healthcare - Redux
by: Autumn Sandeen
Sun Aug 01, 2010 at 17:30:00 PM EDT

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/16892/transgressive-healthcare-redux (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/16892/transgressive-healthcare-redux)

This time, instead of having to be sent out to the Naval Medical Center San Diego because the VA San Diego Medical Center's Radiology Department wasn't trained and accredited as yet, the VA San Diego Medical Center could accomplish my mammogram.

Well, I'm a little dense.

Seriously, after switching from Premarin to Transdermal Estradiol Hormone Patches a couple of years ago, by breast tissue became denser -- so my breasts are a little dense. That meant repeated scans of my breasts at first, and then meant the doctor decided she wanted ultrasound images