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ID/Micro Academic Doctor & Smiley-faced lover of purple

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To LISTEN is one of the most important skills as a #doctor. The story or "history" a #patient gives you is always the clue to the #diagnosis. This is still important as I do my #research as I still keep an eye on them clinically 👩🏻‍⚕️ • More than that, it's also your connection to the person. Sometimes you just taking your time is all they need. Being a #medicalstudent is also a privileged position- patients will often tell you things they haven't told their doctor! ☺️ • #wearestemsquad #summerofSTEM day 20 LISTEN What sort of wannabe #microbiologist would I be if I didn't show you bacteria on #wearestemsquad #summerofSTEM day 19- GROWTH? 🔬😂 • This has a coliform on it. Coliforms are types of gram negative bacteria (e.g., E. coli, Klebsiella...) found naturally in the human gut but are also found in the environment. Microbes and humans do live in synergy too- not all cause us harm (although this probably is, as it's from a hospital lab so it's probably somewhere it shouldn't be in the body, for example urine). I love the colours ☺️ Can't wait to start my micro block. 👩🏻‍⚕️ • #womeninscience #womeninmedicine #womeninstem After clever next-generation sequencing machines like Minion have sequenced the #DNA I've extracted, the next step is to read and understand that data. We're constantly learning so much about organisms we didn't even know existed, so how do you work out what's coded for them? #Bioinformatics. This is the future of #medicine and #microbiology. 💩😍😁🤓👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏻‍💻 • To do this properly, I'm excited to say I need to learn to be one of them there #girlswhocode. Despite being the daughter of a #softwareengineer, even working out how to download the right version of #Python before my course has me scratching my head in my #coffee break! But hey, the view of my sunkissed #garden is always a help ☺️🐍😂 • Days 17 and 18 #wearestemsquad #summerofSTEM BREAK and VIEW I don't even have pictures for/accounts/tag space for some of my sources of SUPPORT, such as all my cousins, Sarah, Sam, my senior colleagues and consultants, and travel friends old and new (some of whom are in teeny photos!). I'm such a lucky girl ☺️🍀 • And of course no #womeninstem post would be complete without the humble bra- not just as an actual support for many of us but also for its symbolism in getting #womensrights and the vote. I say support for many of us partly because I'd also like to mention some of the strong, beautiful and brave #postmastectomy women I've seen on Instagram. I honestly never fail to be humbled and #inspired by #patients and the #humanspirit ❤️💪 • Day 16 #wearestemsquad #summerofSTEM - SUPPORT GOLDEN to me is my #education. Without it I wouldn't be where I am today. It is such a gift and it always pained me that to be "cool" as a kid in the UK is to act like it's not important- completely the opposite of kids in some poorer countries I've been to that relish school. Learning new skills of any sort in life is worth it 💪 • I realise my route of learning isn't for everyone and also that I'm lucky to have had the family and chances I have. For some even in the UK, access to higher education is limited thanks to sky high prices. It's never too late to learn something new though. Education frees communities, emancipates women, allows people to think for themselves. It's one of the most precious tools we have ❤️ • #wearestemsquad #summerofSTEM day 15- GOLDEN Day 14: TRAVEL #wearestemsquad #summerofSTEM • Those who've been following for a time know how grateful I am to #medicine for the opportunities it's given me to #travel. This is a picture of me and @titanimiti when she was little- I was doing a project in her village area with @skip_kids in #Zambia in 2005 & 2006. Tita and I keep in touch and she's kindly given me permission to post her looking adorable ☺️ • SKIP is an amazing charity that enables #students (not just medical) to set up community projects with charities in other countries. It really helped to form my interests today in #globalhealth. Look how beautifully this SUN-DAY lights up the samples 😂 That's today's #wearestemsquad #summerofSTEM photo theme. ☀️ • I'm currently in the #lab doing a #dnaextraction, having been for a #swim this morning and learnt some great gardening knowledge from my mum-in-law. It's important to try to do the extractions while the samples are relatively 'fresh' so I'm aiming for within 7 days. Hence being in today. Such is #researchlife 😁 • Check out @scientistselfies if you haven't yet- interesting project ☺️ ...nor any drop to drink." 💦 • I'm happily at a lovely spa day with my sisters and Coleridge was talking about the sea. But a lack of safe drinking water is a huge #globalhealth problem. My hubby and I ❤️ @wateraid and one of the great things about both of our jobs is that we get to promote issues like these and work with humanitarian causes. The borehole pic is from a @skip_kids project. More about them on Monday. Every little helps, folks... 💧 • Now I'm off for a hearty healthy swim 🏊‍♀️ • #wearestemsquad #summerofSTEM day 12- SPLASH

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