Steven Katz Quotations

The current policy assumes that the high rate of mastectomy, the more invasive treatment, is a result of two things: providers not following guidelines that favor breast-conserving therapy and patients not being involved in the treatment decision. What we find is the opposite: Surgeons are strongly promoting lumpectomy, and most women say they were involved in the decision.

It was a lemonade stand and bake sale on a large scale.

If they clot off, there's probably a 50 percent chance of losing your leg, whereas if you fix them electively, it becomes a couple of percent.

If they clot off, there's probably a 50% chance of losing your leg, whereas if you fix them electively, it becomes a couple of percent.

In the 20th century, the estimate is that 100 million people were killed by government.

One important finding is that most patients reported that their surgeons recommended the less invasive treatment. Second, patients had substantial involvement in the decision-making process. More patient involvement, though, yielded more mastectomy, not less.

We don't see it as being a specific category of collection, therefore, we don't weed them out. It's just reported as a collection.

We think we have enough money, but it's very difficult to predict claims, ... It's not a science, it's an art.