The comic · Genetics of Disease (GenD)

Week 14 of 22

OCTOBER 30 TO NOVEMBER 5

Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.

Drawing, panel 63: Screening equity debate.

Who gets offered screening, and what happens when the test exists but access does not. A test nobody can reach is not a benefit, it is a statistic about a benefit.

Panel 63Screening equity debate · 2026-10-30
Drawing, panel 64: Molecule-to-patient case packet.

Building one case from the molecular level up to the person. Sequence, expression, test result, diagnosis, intervention.

Panel 64Molecule-to-patient case packet
Drawing, panel 65: Evidence sort and false results.

Sorting our evidence by how much it can carry, and marking which results could be false and what that would do to the conclusion.

Panel 65Evidence sort and false results · 2026-11-04
Drawing, panel 66: Treatment recommendation draft.

Recommending an actual intervention, defended with evidence from multiple units, with the uncertainty stated.

Panel 66Treatment recommendation draft · 2026-11-05
Drawing, panel 67: Unit 2 summative.

The unit assessment. Nothing on it was a surprise, which is the whole argument for the nightly review.

Panel 67Unit 2 summative
Drawing, panel 68: Cleveland Clinic rotation.

My Clinic onboarding cleared. Background check, modules, health requirements, all signed off, twelve weeks after I started.

ME

Twelve weeks. First thing school has produced that exists outside of school.

Panel 68Cleveland Clinic rotation
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