When Annmarie Beard discovered a lump in her breast, she didn’t wait. She called her doctor right away.

When Annmarie Beard discovered a lump in her breast, she didn’t wait. She called her doctor right away.

She was told the earliest she could be seen was three months later. Frustrated, she called the place where she went for regular mammograms. She told them of her lump, and they told her to call her doctor. She’d need to be seen by her primary care physician first and referred for a mammogram to deal with the lump.

Beard had been going for regular mammograms for years. Being told she’d have to see her doctor first this time was new. And for her, it was unacceptable. I

“I thought, ‘these people have got to be kidding me,’” she said.

Rather than wait three months for an appointment to then be referred for a screening she’d had several times already, she decided to call the mammography facility back. This time, she simply said she wanted to schedule a routine screening.

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