Unfortunately, this case suggests that we're still in the dark ages of employment-based testing. Geneticists in particular question the legitimacy of the carpal tunnel test. They point out that the disease is a common workplace disability, and mutations of it are extremely rare. I'm a humanist physician. This would be the last thing I'd want to see happen with my work.
Court declares right to genetic privacy.
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