# The Work

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- Published: 2026-10-24T03:19:54+00:00
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# The scientist⏎ and the experiencer.

Two lines of inquiry, run in parallel for over a decade. One starts in a lab. The
other starts in a coma. Both keep circling the same question: what actually makes
us human, and what our place is in the wider universe.

 Thread one

### The Scientist

Pharmacogenomics looks at why the same dose of the same drug can help one person
and harm another — and traces that difference back to the genes doing the metabolizing.
It's precision medicine before precision medicine had the marketing.

 * **Pharmacogenomics & precision dosing** — how genetic variants change drug response
 * **Genomics in everyday care** — where genetic testing is quietly entering the
   clinic
 * **Where the field is heading** — pharmacogenomics, polygenic risk, and what's
   still hype
 * **AI in medicine, done responsibly** — genuinely excited about it, clear-eyed
   about its limits, and a believer in real regulation around how it's built and
   used

 Thread two

### The Experiencer

A sepsis-induced coma took El past the point doctors expect someone to come back
from. What she experienced — and what she's spent years since reading the actual
literature on — sits at the genuinely unresolved edge of consciousness research.

 * **Her own near-death experience** — sepsis, coma, and what she remembers of both
 * **What NDE research actually says** — the Greyson Scale, hospital-based studies,
   and their limits
 * **Consciousness, examined** — the open questions science hasn't closed, held 
   without overclaiming
 * **What makes us human** — explored as executive producer & host of _Interdimensional_,
   a documentary on consciousness, near-death and contact experience, and our connection
   to the wider universe

Same instinct. Different instrument.

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