Searching for birth parents: What to tell your patients

From: Medical Economics | Date: April 12, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

FP Elizabeth Pector, author of the accompanying article, was fortunate: Her reunion with her biological parents was a positive, lifeaffirming experience. Not all adoptees are so lucky.

But since finding their birth parents enables adoptees to learn something of their family medical history-information that can help with treatment decisions and assess the risk of disease-many adoptees ask their doctors about the advisability of undertaking a search Until recent years, however, there wasn't much that doctors-or anyone else-could do to help people locate their biological next of kin. Even ...

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