"What do women want?" psychiatry's founding father Sigmund Freud famously asked.  Well apparently even some women don't know even though they think they do. Or maybe the question is just inherently unanswerable.  Yeah, that's it. Thinking women absolutely needed a new breast after a mastectomy to heal mentally, emotionally and socially  feminists, some doctors and other concerned types pushed forth a law requiring medical insurance for the surgery also cover reconstruction.  And now researchers have discovered The number of women choosing breast reconstruction after a mastectomy has not risen much, despite a law mandating medical insurance coverage for the procedure, researchers report. Granted there are regional, ethnic and age differences regarding the choices women make but the study indicates that this was another unnecessary law: finding a problem that didn't exist and passing a law to solve the non existent problem.  In the process this may have...(Read Full Post)