Open AccessNarrative Case Study: Adoption
Author(s) -
Linda Hill
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the permanente journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.445
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1552-5775
pISSN - 1552-5767
DOI - 10.7812/tpp/04-030
Subject(s) - medicine , narrative , data science , computer science , linguistics , philosophy
Regularly in the course of my practice, I'll take a family history and receive the reply “I don't know, I was adopted.” In the past, I viewed this lack of genetic information as an annoying gap in the patient history. However, I recently became involved in reuniting my father, David, with his birth family, an experience that has changed my perspective.
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