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The role of the genetics counsellor with Mona Saleh, PhD.
WE DIVE INTO the topic of genetic counselling. WE GO DEEP with Sydney based genetic counsellor Mona Saleh. Mona OPENS UP about her role as a genetics counsellor, what her work involves and how she helps people and their families across a wide range of genetic issues.
 
 What can happen if two people, who are related such as first cousins, have a child? What can this mean for their offspring? Is the child more likely to have genetic issues? This and more.
 
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 Poem by Khalil Ghabran
 
 “Do not love half lovers
 
 Do not entertain half friends
 
 Do not indulge in works of the half talented
 
 Do not live half a life
 
 and do not die a half death
 
 If you choose silence, then be silent
 
 When you speak, do so until you are finished
 
 Do not silence yourself to say something
 
 And do not speak to be silent
 
 If you accept, then express it bluntly
 
 Do not mask it
 
 If you refuse then be clear about it
 
 for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
 
 Do not accept half a solution
 
 Do not believe half truths
 
 Do not dream half a dream
 
 Do not fantasize about half hopes
 
 Half a drink will not quench your thirst
 
 Half a meal will not satiate your hunger
 
 Half the way will get you no where
 
 Half an idea will bear you no results
 
 Your other half is not the one you love
 
 It is you in another time yet in the same space
 
 It is you when you are not
 
 Half a life is a life you didn't live,
 
 A word you have not said
 
 A smile you postponed
 
 A love you have not had
 
 A friendship you did not know
 
 To reach and not arrive
 
 Work and not work
 
 Attend only to be absent
 
 What makes you a stranger to them closest to you
 
 and they strangers to you
 
 The half is a mere moment of inability
 
 but you are able for you are not half a being
 
 You are a whole that exists to live a life
 
 not half a life”
 
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