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I've lived in the Philomath area for 13 years, during the Clemens Grant controversy.  I had experience with the school's superintentant, and I read odd letters to the editor by one of the Clemens Grant overseer.  I thought that after watching Peter Richardson's documentary on this subject, I would come away on one side or the other.  It was so objectively presented, showing quirks on both sides, that I am still ambivulant.  I was very impressed by that project and I look forward to seeing this new project.  Is it coming to Corvallis?

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Working as a Veterinary Technician, the clinic's policy was to present the client with a detailed estimate before any procedure.  If that had been done in my doctor's office, I probably wouldn't have gone through with a simple elective treatment that ended up costing $300.  I am so used to insurance covering costs, that I hadn't given the cost a thought.

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I was 38 when my doctor suggested I have a mammogram.  There was enough fibrous breast tissue he wasn't confident with his palpation.  That mammogram found a small intraductal calcification that my doctor wasn't able to palpate even knowing it was there.  The biopsy found it was malignant.  After a lumpectomy and radiation, I was considered "cured."  This event put me in the catagory of annual mammograms.  Eight years later (I was 46) a 2 cm mass was found in the other breast.  Again it was malignant.  I wonder if I would be healthy and cancer-free today if that initial mammogram wasn't done.  If there are better screenings, use those.  If not, are we to let statistics doom the few that the screenings would help?

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