Physicians and counselors must address the importance of communicating genetic test results to family members in the pre-test counseling and informed-consent processes prior to testing.

Professional obligation should override personal values when it comes to providing legal medical services.

Patient autonomy and confidentiality come under new scrutiny in the age of genetic testing.

Physicians must consider clinical and ethical questions with patients who request in vitro fertilization and preimplantation genetic diagnosis.

A medical student’s desire to practice the specialty that he or she finds most interesting should not outweigh the right of patients in a pluralistic society to receive a full range of legal medical services.

U.S. and international medical organizations recommend against testing children for genetic diseases that occur after adolescence and for which no prevention or treatment is available.

Two key court decisions came to different conclusions regarding physicians’ duty to warn third parties of genetic risk.

U.S. and international medical organizations recommend against testing children for genetic diseases that occur after adolescence and for which no prevention or treatment is available.

The question of whether and how results from personal genetic testing will motivate behavioral changes in consumers has only begun to receive the research attention it richly deserves.

Family history is important to patient care.