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Re: Birth defect legal question From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@yahoo.com) Mon Jan 31 11:52:54 2005 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Diane Castellanos: "Re: Birth defect legal question" Previous message: Barborza@aol.com: "Re: Birth defect legal question" In reply to: art fougner, md: "Re: Birth defect legal question" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: Birth defect legal question" Reply: art fougner, md: "Re: Birth defect legal question" I agree - there are always false positives and false negatives - and that "it ain't over til it's over." Another poster had said "but ... what about X" -- and my comment was that some things you can be pretty sure of pre-natally - but that doesn't mean you can be sure that any possible defect has been ruled in or out. I think you and I agree on this one. Joanne At Mon, 31 Jan 2005, art fougner, md wrote: > >Joanne > >Yogi Berra is the patron saint of Prenatal Diagnosis - what he said >about the Mets in 1973 is quite valid for this field - "it ain't over >til it's over." > >Also there ARE false postive results for virtually every test in >medicine - even ultrasound, amniocentesis and everybody's gold standard >- autopsy ( they still argue over JFK's). > >art > >At Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Joanne Bulley, MD wrote: >> >>What I hear from Art --- is that a NORMAL US does NOT mean that there >>are NO birth defects. It doesn't mean that threre aren't certain >>defects can be ruled in or out close to the 100% mark --- but that even >>if everything that can be done as "screening" (without other suspicions >>justifying the test) there WILL still be birth defects not diagnosible >>before birth -- and some that will be diagnosed later in life than >>birth. >> >>Joanne >> -- Joanne Bulley, MD Keene, NH, USA "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security." -- Benjamin Franklin Next message: Diane Castellanos: "Re: Birth defect legal question" Previous message: Barborza@aol.com: "Re: Birth defect legal question" In reply to: art fougner, md: "Re: Birth defect legal question" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: Birth defect legal question" Reply: art fougner, md: "Re: Birth defect legal question"

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