[tri-med] Re: The Hospital Tells the Truth(karen)

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From: "Barbara Farlow"
> You mention Smith's.  Is that a standard medical text??

Smith's is the genetic "bible" - I have the 5th edition but I understand we 
are now up to the 6th edition.
Its Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation. Smith himself is 
now dead (he died in in 1981) but the book continues to be revised 
regularly. It lists all recognizable syndromes, including many of the rarer 
trisomies.

Smith's is usually what doctors photocopy and give to parents when they 
first discover the trisomy. Which is NOT good. Smith's is a medical text and 
lists all 150 odd problems associated with the trisomy and their rate of 
occurence. But for someone in shock it makes it sound like every baby has 
every possible problem.

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