Genzyme could have told them about their baby, said Griffin. The lab could have told them about the rare disorder, but didn't because the test, known as FISH, does not fall into what is commonly known as normal standard of care. Puck said in the case of Cheryl Dawson, there was no indication that anything was wrong. There was no family history or ethnic history that would indicate the child she carried had a birth defect. The only was to find that specific birth defect, according to Genzyme, would have been to test Dawson for every possible disorder known to genetics.
Nobody practices genetics by offering every test there is to a pregnant woman.
University of California, Los Angeles geneticist Dr. Wayne Grody agreed. You can't talk about all 10,000. That would be a four-year medical school course and even physicians don't know all of them available. But Dawson and Sarabia think that answer smacks of big brotherism. They believe the medical field withheld information that could have told them what was wrong with their child.