Guest guest Posted November 21, 2002 Report Share Posted November 21, 2002 Hi , Keep in mind that many people who are afflicted with CMT have very mild symptoms. Many people who have CMT are never diagnosed, they just go through life thinking they are a little clumsy. Depending on the severity of his symptoms being a doctor, and possibly even a surgeon, could still be a career choice for your son. I inherited CMT from my father, who is still a practicing GI radiologist today (at age 63). Your son's possible careers will be constrained by his abilities, and those abilities may well be affected by CMT. But there is no way to know today to what extent CMT will affect him. This is not to say don't push for a diagnosis. That is something that you are going to have to decide with your son. But the path to being an orthopedic surgeon doesn't become so narrow as to preclude other possible carreers for a long time yet. Even after completing med school there are a large number of careers that would be possible with extreme CMT symptoms (Pathology, Forensics, some kinds of Radiology are examples within medicine that do not require great manual dexterity of physical stamina) Toby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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