Since being in college, I've had the dream to be a pediatrician. After reading, "Genetic Rounds" by Robert Marion, MD last summer, that dream changed to be pediatric medical geneticist. Many children are born with rare genetic disorders and often die at very young ages. Thats when I began doing some research on genetic disorders and … Continue reading Different isn’t defective, it is beautiful
Category: Medicine
Words of Encouragement
Yesterday I had a magical moment. So I am a student nutrition aide at a hospital, meaning I order and deliver patients meals. Near the end of the evening, after I had delivered all the dinners, I went around to order breakfast with some patients. Anyways, I went into a sweet lady's room to order her … Continue reading Words of Encouragement
Interesting Medical Student Blog
Interesting Blog This is a blog by a 4th year medical student, and touches on some touching, controversial, and interesting topics in medicine. Give it a read if you have time! 🙂
Getting Creative with Your DNA
We are entering an era where people are getting closer and closer to accessing their DNA Sequence. Most places just do SNP mapping, restriction mapping and etc. Steve Job's got his whole genome sequenced for $100,000, but some companies are offering patients ~$10,000 to sequence their whole genome, and that price is only dropping. Partial Genome sequencing if … Continue reading Getting Creative with Your DNA
Junior Year
Hello everyone! I am now starting my junior year of college! I really can't believe that I am already half way through my undergrad. The first two years went by so fast, it is crazy how fast time flies sometimes. This year is very exciting, yet nerve wrecking for me. I am now taking classes … Continue reading Junior Year
