However, having served on a hospital credentials committee, and bearing witness to what type of lawsuits medical providers have been subject to, I can assure you that if a physician advises against a screening mammogram to a woman in her early 40's despite the fact that there are "organizations" that encourage it, and she ends up with breast cancer and possibly dies, that physician will get sued and will in all likelihood lose, or have to settle. Task forces can make all kinds of recommendations, but unless there are changes to the legal system to back them up , don't expect major changes. Somewhere in this discussion it was suggested that doctors are ignorant. It is, in fact, the exact opposite.