Re: CLIA trivia --> PAP MILLS

[Guest guest]

Speaking of a pap mill. You do know the history of pap smears, right?

Papanicolaou - a GP from Greece - invented the pap by . . .

ummm . . .performing a pap on his wife every day for 21 years!!!

Thank you Lady Papinicolaou.

Now that's a pap mill.

Pamela

Pamela Wible, MD

3575 St. #220

Eugene, OR 97405

www.idealmedicalcare.org

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> Interesting story behind CLIA...apparently started because of the 'pap mills'

of the 1970s that were providing poor quality pap smear results to women who

thought they were being appropriately screened for cervical cancer. And who

signed the bill that made CLIA law???

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> That great liberal Reagan.

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