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• Title: Just Another Test? (Case Study)
• Author : The Hastings Center Report
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,Health, Mind & Body,Health & Fitness,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 50 KB

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Samantha is a pale and withdrawn fourteen-year-old brought to the emergency room by her mother. She is fatigued, nauseated, and has been vomiting. Her mother tells the physician on call in the ER that she's very worried; Samantha lately refuses to eat, has lost weight, has stopped going to soccer practice, and has missed several days of school. The doctor examines Samantha and then asks if she may speak to her alone. Samantha and her mother agree and her mother leaves the room, but Samantha is clearly uncomfortable. In response to the doctor's questions, Samantha says that she first menstruated at age eleven, that her periods have been regular, and that she last had one four weeks ago. When the doctor asks whether she is sexually active, she admits that she had her first sexual contact right before her last period. She says it was consensual and that her partner used a condom. She then says that she knows she's not pregnant--she took a home pregnancy test the day before, and the results were negative. The doctor asks if she can test Samantha again, and Samantha starts to cry. "I already told you, the test said I'm not," she says. "I'm not pregnant!"

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