ornithine, citrulline, and.. A.S.S.?

you spin me right round baby right round like a record baby...

oh how incredibly fun urea cycle disorders are. i actually am being serious because surprisingly, they make so much sense, and when the biochemical geneticists explain this stuff, it awes me how incredibly elegant diagnoses can be made, and how swift interventions can be performed.

well, i’m slowly working my way back into the real world after my weeks of non-existence. more to come later about lots of things!

negotiating genetic counseling and cantonese

i suppose i can’t sleep tonight because i have a lot on my mind. my research project, summer rotation, our mid-winter break. i’d like to be productive during that short break, hopefully be able to incorporate something interesting and beneficial to my current course of study.

i’ve been doing a bit of digging into where genetic counseling and cantonese intersect, and i’ve been finding myself looking back at the bay area. internet searches lead me to a few cantonese-speaking genetic counselors working for the kaiser permanente group in san francisco. it sounds like they do counsel in cantonese. i’d really like to be able to sit in on some of their session, get an understanding of how these genetic concepts are communicated. it is difficult to compromise in myself these ideas because