Mullin Kimberly A, MD

I’ve been going to Mullin for years and, for personal reasons and beliefs, have always declined mammograms. (I’m not the woman referred to in the following link, but agree with the views presented, especially in the «Overdiagnosis» section):
). The comments within the article are worthy of reading, as well.
This is my mullin story. I am a healthy, 56 year-​old, 5’5″, 110 lb. multi-​time international distance triathlete and marathon runner. I will be participating in my first ½ ironman in 2 weeks. (1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13.1 run). Last week, I received a phone call from my pharmacy stating that mullin refused to re-​fill my hormone prescription. (Note: Estrogen affects energy levels. I have been training for my ½ ironman for 6 months, and spent a serious amount of time and cash preparing for this event. I cannot afford to have anything affect my body at this stage in the game.) I called the office pleading with them and tried to express my philosophies and my situation. They said I was a lay-​person and basically inferred that my opinion didn’t matter. They claimed that mullin told me she would not re-​fill my prescription until I got a mammogram. That was not what happened. Mullin urged me to get a mammogram — never mentioned cutting off my hormones if I didn’t.. Several months prior, I had requested a hormone-​level saliva test kit to order the test ($ 300 out-​of-​pocket because insurance does not cover it.) Only a moron would order it (the patient orders the test through the mail) and spend the $ 300 for naught, knowing their prescription was going to get cut off if they didn’t get a mammogram. I tried to explain that to the clerk who answered the phone and she cut me off at the word «moron» and accused me of calling mullin a moron.
Apparently, if you’re not pumping out the money makers (babies), and you refuse to go searching for other potential money makers (cancer), you are of no value to mullin. I received a letter in the mail that same day, stating that she will no longer see me and that I should find another doctor. I relayed this story to someone else in the medical profession. She asked who my doctor was. When I told her, she said «Oh, she’s a…» then professionalism overcame her, and prevented her from finishing her original sentence and she changed it to «That sounds like something she would do.»
Mullin is within her right to withhold a prescription that is linked to cancer risks. But, I am also within my right to refuse a mammogram. This is taken from the modern version of the Hippocratic Oath:
«I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.»
I wonder if mullin dumps her obese patients who refuse to lose weight. I wonder if she dumps her patients who refuse to quit smoking. I wonder if she considers all the lurking health risks (including cancer) in those patients. I wonder if my dentist would ever consider dumping me because I skip some of my yearly exams.
The moment after I received that initial phone call from the pharmacy, I began searching on zocdoc for an alternative doctor. (This was prior to receiving mullin’s «find a different doctor» letter.)
My expectations of medical care are way different than that received at mullin’s office. With the exception of Margy (who I haven’t seen in a while), I will not miss the wait time in the office, the «by the book» compassion-​less and omnipotent medical «care» received by mullin and her scowling staff.
11/​06/​2015 update
Here’s another article by a doctor who uses her brain. IMO, the reason the mammogram is still around in America is because it’s a big money maker for the medical profession.