I Investigated the Prenatal Testing Industry
Sarah KliffReporting on health care
In theory, patients are supposed to know these are merely screening tests, not confirmatory diagnostic ones.
But I interviewed 14 women who had been through the experience of getting a false positive result. They described weeks of anguish as they waited for follow-up testing, which is costly. Some began tentatively planning abortions.
Others said they were frustrated that their doctors never warned them about the possibility of a false positive — and, in some cases, treated the test as a definitive diagnosis.
