Getting Your Questions Answered

TL;DRAbstract

Many questions about inherited diseases can be answered by anyone's personal physician. In addition, the family physician usually has the clear advantage of having information on multiple generations. His knowledge of the family pedigree is already available, although it may not have been reduced to a formal diagram. Many times, a personal physician can provide the proper advice about inherited diseases just as for other routine illness. On the other hand, many inherited disorders are rare, and there is new information about them so that help from a specialist may be needed. Most physicians have had training in basic genetics and are skilled in explaining things to patients. Thus, often all that is needed is information from a geneticist or a medical reference as to the inheritance pattern and the method of diagnosis of a specific disorder. In such cases, a telephone call or a quick look in a book may be all that a general physician needs to provide the help that is needed.KeywordsGene

Chat with Paper

AI Agents for this Paper