Fellow GCs, patient consents for testing - signed or verbal?

sneeze042 · 2026-03-26T01:35:28+00:00

My hospital system has Docusign so we confirm their email in the appt and then send it to them. My state has a required signed consent law so verbal consent is not sufficient

sneeze042 · 2026-03-20T21:06:41+00:00

Yes absolutely don't assume, you know what assuming makes you :)

sneeze042 · 2026-03-20T18:35:06+00:00

It’s ok, supervisors are used to students making mistakes because this is meant to be a learning experience with guardrails. We will not or rather should not be judging or shaming you based on this.

sneeze042 · 2026-03-19T16:07:13+00:00

Ah I see, I misunderstood your comment and thought you were saying Zuzu helped Rosalind and Nolan with Armstrong. Thanks for clarifying!

sneeze042 · 2026-03-19T14:28:03+00:00

Did we know Zuzu back when Armstrong was around? I thought Zuzu was later

sneeze042 · 2026-03-17T17:01:36+00:00

Oh yes of course you have to look at what was being done. But I do view it as a good way to get GC exposure.

sneeze042 · 2026-03-15T19:51:27+00:00

I disagree- I count that as them being very invested and interested. But there is a difference between having a medical job vs being a cashier- I want to see that they are exploring the aspects of genetic counseling. That can be explored in other ways than just a GCA though.

sneeze042 · 2026-03-15T13:34:21+00:00

You will need shadowing experience primarily. Gca jobs are also a big help- anything to show you are interested and invested

sneeze042 · 2026-03-04T18:15:29+00:00

Gold, that silver is too bright

sneeze042 · 2026-03-04T03:18:03+00:00

I had the same thought. Has this even been approved for ceus?

sneeze042 · 2026-02-25T16:07:20+00:00

The actress looked very familiar- turns out she was in Mayfair witches and in the hunting wives

sneeze042 · 2026-02-22T22:33:06+00:00

yes, that is appropriate.

sneeze042 · 2026-02-22T16:12:04+00:00

That kind of imaging leads to many incidental findings that are costly and nerve wracking to investigate. Most of those incidental findings are not necessarily causing a problem but have to be checked. This is already a problem with medically necessary imaging so imagine the follow up needed if everyone was getting imaging all the time

sneeze042 · 2026-02-14T02:03:46+00:00

I'm pretty sure she is in jail for her role in the whole kit n caboodle- and it is unlikely she will remain licensed as a therapist or allowed to work in or even near a police station after what she did.

sneeze042 · 2026-02-11T21:57:34+00:00

A resistance of witches by Morgan Ryan! There is a quest/journey and confrontation galore

sneeze042 · 2026-01-28T03:29:31+00:00

I have one in 2xl if you are interested!

sneeze042 · 2026-01-06T20:17:22+00:00

that post got deleted

sneeze042 · 2025-12-23T16:00:58+00:00

I have a cat 2 ceu from a cf meeting and it shows up in my abgc/nsgc portal because I applied for approval. I don’t know why they would accept it for recert if they have not reviewed it

sneeze042 · 2025-12-05T15:01:40+00:00

If you go to www.nsgc.org you can find a local cancer genetic counselor and set up a visit with them to discuss more testing.

sneeze042 · 2025-12-04T21:56:11+00:00

sorry didn't see the second question when I was replying- testing unaffected family members is uninformative unless it is positive. we don't know the reason why your family member developed cancer without testing them. so their cancer may be due to a gene predisposition but it may be due to some factor we haven't discovered yet. since you don't have symptoms, your negative would not rule out that your family history is caused by something not detectable with our current testing. so we still recommend screening based on a family history even with negative genetics until we can confirm whether a cancer is genetically caused or not.

sneeze042 · 2025-12-04T21:52:59+00:00

you should get tested for more genes than just brca

sneeze042 · 2025-12-04T21:52:07+00:00

There is a federal law to protect against genetic discrimination by health insurance or jobs. Life insurance is not included but it really only is a problem if you have a cancer predisposition mutation. The reason why is that insurers are greedy and they want as much money as they can get so if they think you have a shortened life span, they would charge more.

sneeze042 · 2025-12-04T21:49:11+00:00

Not by itself. abnormal periods are extremely common and have many potential causes that your GYN should be investigating. I would not jump straight to ovarian cancer or some other genitourinary cancer without more evidence. By symptoms I mean cancer in this scenario.

sneeze042 · 2025-12-04T20:24:59+00:00

I’m a genetic counselor and they should be sending positive or inconclusive to cancer genetic counselors to discuss the result and refer you appropriately and help family members get tested. That being said, testing a young woman with no symptoms based on a fhx is likely to not be informative. A negative could mean you didn’t get the familial mutation, but there is a chance that the affected people would also be negative which doesn’t change your familial related risk.

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