March 2, 2013
Suddenly it was show time. At the designated time an
assistant picked me up to take me to the prenatal diagnosis conference at which
I was speaking.
My first task was to meet with the two people who were assigned
to translate my talk into Japanese. They were amazing and asked very
sophisticated scientific questions. All of this was done before my lecture, but
when I participated in a panel discussion afterwards, they translated the
audience’s questions into English.
The Japanese are very respectful of the
seasons, and this aesthetic even carries over to the power point presentations. All of the speakers' photographs are surrounded by plum blossoms.
After the conference I visited my hostess, Dr. Pooh’s (yes, that is her real name!) prenatal diagnosis clinic and laboratory. While there were no doctors named Eeyore or Tigger in sight, there was a lot of Winnie the Poo memorabilia!
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