minyin thinks she might want to go into pathology and become a haematologist. this is quite a change from her previous leanings towards neurology and anaesthesiology and i really know very little about it. (me: haemophilia! have his carcase! sickle-cell! transfusion! minyin: er...there's more than that to haematology you know.) hey do you remember how we always had to draw and explain, in bio exams, the life cycle of the malarial parasite, and spell things like gametocytes and merozoites and erythrocytic schizogony and by the way i don't remember what any of those things mean anymore) so i'm reading up about haematological disorders now. i'm horrified by the sheer number of things that can go wrong with your white blood cells alone. when i start this history of medicine class with katy parks i shall see what i can find out about medieval attitudes towards blood.