DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Is there any point in getting a second opinion after a diagnosis of emphysema? My 47-year-old son was a "chesty" baby, lots of bronchitis. Then we went to Africa for two years, and he didn't seem to have chest problems while there. An internist diagnosed him as having chronic bronchitis when he was only 18.

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