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Date Posted: 20:58:31 03/10/02 Sun
Author: Karen Tate
Subject: Response to question #5

Genetic counselors should certainly be informed on ways to ease the pain and guilt that often accompanies genetic testing results. Since science is the main focus of genetic counselors, maybe the genetic counselors themselves should not be the ones delving out the therapy to upset patients, but these genetic counselors should most definitely work in conjunction with psychologists or other therapists because with genetic testing comes with a great deal of emotion that needs to be dealt with almost immediately. Medical professionals need to be able to at least recognize a patient's feelings after receiving his or her results so they can recommend some kind of further action such as therapy.

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