This may come as a surprise to some people. Those who do genetic counseling may be subject to pediatric malpractice lawsuits.<\/p>\n
This reported case is extremely interesting in the precedent it may set. It involved a settlement for $7 million; the result of a malpractice lawsuit against four medical professionals, including a genetic counselor. The gist of the case is that the wife did not get proper prenatal genetic counseling before having her baby. As a result, the child was born with a rare genetic syndrome referred to as \u201cCri-du-chat.\u201d The plaintiff\u2019s child is now three years old and has severe mental and physical disabilities.<\/p>\n
This genetic syndrome is the result of lost or misplaced genetic material from the fifth chromosome, and was discovered in 1963. The name of this disorder is based on the sound that babies and youngster make when crying \u2013 similar to a crying cat \u2013 hence \u201cCry of (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This may come as a surprise to some people. Those who do genetic counseling may be subject to pediatric malpractice lawsuits. This reported case is extremely interesting in the precedent it may set. It involved a settlement for $7 million;…<\/span><\/p>\n