Valeria Oceguera Biology 215 Heredity and Society Professor Graham April 7th, 2017 Genetic Rounds Genetic Rounds by Robert Marion is a novel about a medical doctor who is himself, Dr. Marion, who tries to go beyond the medical help and tries to change the lives of his patients. Dr. Marion is an advocate for fighting for the best medical care for a patient and he tries to work his best to provide his clients what they need. Dr. Marion has had many cases and each one of his cases has either taught him about life or some of his cases have taught him to keep fighting and working hard to help adults and children beat their disease. Dr. Marion in his book has many patients, cases, and in addition, many disorders are discussed. One of Doctor …show more content…
In some cases, babies who are brought into the emergency room with their parents with a broken bone can cause a situation for the parents because the parents may be seen as being responsible for child abuse. X-rays are needed to be taken to prove that child abuse may not be the case and so that the doctors can know that a baby may have osteogenesis imperfecta, and that they can help the baby and that the doctors can know that child abuse is not the reason why the baby may have a broken bone. The physical clinical symptoms include “fragile bones, sensitive skin, hearing impairment, high temperature, short stature” (Annagür). To diagnose this disorder x-rays would be taken and the treatment for this disorder is would be surgery and management. Dr. Marion talked about a case of where two parents who accused of child abuse because of a misunderstanding, the doctors and medical staff thought that the parents were abusing the baby but the baby in reality had osteogenesis imperfecta (Gliga). This led to the parents of the baby getting a divorce later on, the mistakes of the medical staff sadly led to a divorce and a fight and being seen as being suspicious for hurting their baby, even though it was later proven that abuse was not the