What ethical or professional concerns does a health-care professional need to address when he or she has a patient who wants to prematurely treat a genetic disease? Do you think genetic testing should be part of normal preventive healthcare? Why or why not?

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Emery Duarte

6 May, 23:53

What ethical or professional concerns does a health-care professional need to address when he or she has a patient who wants to prematurely treat a genetic disease? Do you think genetic testing should be part of normal preventive healthcare? Why or why not?

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Mata · Answer 1

Answer:Part 1.

There are many ethical or professional concerns related to genetic treatments.

Usually, a prematurely genetic treatment involves the genetic testing first. A health care professional should address these concerns:

The risk related to the subjects life. The stress and anxiety during treatment. The financial information / cost of the procedure. Advantages of procedure All potential disadvantages. The probability of success and failure of the treatment procedure. Part 2. Answer:

Yes, I think genetic testing is the vital and important part of preventive health care.

Genetic disorders are incurable so there should be genetic testing necessary for all who have some genetic anomalies in families.

Part 3. Answer:

There are many genetic disorders which are running in genes from the start of mankind. It is very difficult and painful to cope with them. That is why genetic testing should be a necessary procedure in preventive health care. If you know that your coming child will have some serious disorder which leads ultimately to pain and distress to that child and then death, so it is preferable not to give birth to that child. Some people think that it is unethical, but I think it is ethical in sense of lowering the pains of your family and yours.