Challenges in Communicating a Genetic Diagnosis

Children (Basel). 2023 Mar 31;10(4):672. doi: 10.3390/children10040672.

Abstract

Communicating the diagnosis of a genetic entity/rare disease to a patient or their parents is a complex process; it requires the doctor, pediatrician, or geneticist to display good communication skills and knowledge in a moment of uncertainty and disorientation for the family group, and sometimes in an inappropriate environment or under time constraints [...].

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