Re: Birth defect legal question
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Mon Jan 31 12:57:25 2005
Joanne
correctamundo!
art
At Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Joanne Bulley, MD wrote:
>
>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
>
--
art fougner, md
"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."
Lawrence Peter Berra
