Living without labels: the interactional management of diagnostic uncertainty in the genetic counselling clinic.

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In the genetic counselling setting it is not uncommon for a client and genetic counsellor to be faced with uncertainty surrounding the exact diagnostic label to be assigned to the client's symptoms. The huge range of possible conditions/syndromes and the lack of definitive evidence available often combine to create diagnostic uncertainty or non-diagnosis (the assessment given where a genetic diagnosis of the...

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