{"id":74687,"date":"2012-10-29T08:24:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=18899"},"modified":"2012-10-29T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:24:08","slug":"doctors-are-apparently-gods-get-used-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/29\/doctors-are-apparently-gods-get-used-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors are apparently gods, get used to it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a caption from a <em>Time<\/em> article, <a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2012\/10\/25\/what-your-doctor-isnt-telling-you-about-your-dna\/\">What Your Doctor Isn\u2019t Telling You About Your DNA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/10\/concerneddoctors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18900\" title=\"concerneddoctors\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/10\/concerneddoctors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"31\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice to know that two physicians in Philadelphia not only have medical degrees, but specialize in mind-reading the parents of this nation! Above the caption is a photo of \u00a0the two concerned and worried looking professionals in question. Let me quote the first two paragraphs of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The test results were crystal clear, and still the doctors didn\u2019t know what to do. A sick baby whose genome was analyzed at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia turned out to possess a genetic mutation that indicated dementia would likely take root around age 40. But that lab result was completely unrelated to the reason the baby\u2019s DNA was being tested, leaving the doctors to debate: Should they share the bad news?<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to scanning DNA or sequencing the genome \u2014 reading the entire genetic code \u2014 what to do with unanticipated results is one of the thorniest issues confronting the medical community. Many conflicted discussions followed the dementia discovery at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) before a decision was reached: the parents would not &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/WmPTxmwIxuE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a caption from a Time article, What Your Doctor Isn\u2019t Telling You About Your DNA:<\/p>\n<p>Nice to know that two physicians in Philadelphia not only have medical degrees, but specialize in mind-reading the parents of this nation! Above the capti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,82,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74687"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74761,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74687\/revisions\/74761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}