Re: Triple screening in California
From: James Smeltzer (James.Smeltzer@wellstar.org)
Mon Jun 13 07:51:57 2005
Hi!
Public Health, and the care of children are the appropriate exceptions
to freedom. As Locke outlined a while back, living in a state of nature
is what we gave up to do so - subject to death from malaria, whooping
cough, diptheria, tetanus, smallpox, severe birth defects from rubella,
cripling and lethal infections from polio, chronic liver failure from
hepatitis b.
I am a libertarian except when it comes to sewage treatment, childhood
immunizations and driving on the right side of the road.
;^)
Jim
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James S. Smeltzer, MD, FACOG, SMFM
Consultant, Maternal Fetal Medicine
Wellstar Physicians' Group
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>>> bouthina_ibrahim@yahoo.com 6/12/2005 6:17:45 AM >>>
thank you so much for your information last week there one lady
delivered twins one fetus is norma 2nd fetus with ACRANIA with absent
orbits and nasal bone with cleft palate but intrnal organs are qkay and
can breath without ventillator???what his codtion.
faceMichael Gorman
<gormanm@fcm.ucsf.edu> wrote:At Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Joseph A Worrall
wrote:
>
>To Onebornjoy: I hope someone from California will answer this. It is
my
>understanding (and I may be wrong) that there is a law in the State
of
>California that requires that all pregnant women have serum testing
for
>aneuploidy +ACY- NTD during their pregnancy. This has been in effect
for a
>number of years, and thus there is a good deal of data available. I
believe
>the labs that do the serum testing have to be certified by the State
of
>California, there are prescribed protocols for followup of results. I
seems
>to me I heard somewhere that when ultrasound is part of the protocols,
that
>only certain ultrasound labs can be used.
>
>We also have laws that require testing of newborns for
phenylketoneuria, and
>we have laws that require treatment of newborns eyes to prevent
neonatal
>ophthalmia, etc. I guess you could argue that any law passed to
protect the
>public health is an invasion of someone's rights.
>
>--
>Joseph A Worrall MD RDMS
>
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