At 00:09 11/09/2004, you wrote:
>Last thing this afternoon, a woman squeezes in after surgery. An emergency!
>
>Her brother died in his 40s several weeks ago.
>
>The coroner contacted her this afternoon, or someone at the coroner's
>office, or the pathologist. It wasn't clear. Anyhow, *someone* contacted
>her, to tell her that she must come and see (either the coroner or the
>pathologist) next week.
>
>Sensing something was up, she insisted on being told the reason behind the
>request. The person on the phone admitted that it had been discovered that
>her brother and father had both had a medical syndrome. She would need to
>come to the meeting next week for further info and then she would have to go
>and see her GP for tests.
>
>Nice.
>
>The name of the syndrome?
>
>Good question.
>
>The name the patient wrote down on a piece of paper... BARDABENDOR syndrome.
Does the story have the ring of truth?
Do coroners or coroners officers deal with breaking the news of genetic
diseases to patients?
There is only one circumstance I can think of where this kind of loop might
occur, where they would not simply have been asked for the name of their GP
so that appropriate information could be passed on.
That situation is STD management. Brother and father both died of
syphilitic aortitis?
Hope I'm wrong.
If it's something / anything else would be very interested to hear the
outcome on / off list.
Julian
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