How a DNA test solved a medical mystery – and revealed a doctor’s decades of deception | Ethics in the News

How a DNA test solved a medical mystery – and revealed a doctor’s decades of deception

How a DNA test solved a medical mystery – and revealed a doctor’s decades of deception

Science and Health Ethics

Nov 19 2025 02:02 AM

Summer McKesson’s quest for answers to her medical condition would unearth a family secret – and a doctor’s decades-old deception that has ensnared multiple ...

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