In recog­ni­tion of Na­tional Med­ical Lab­o­ra­tory Pro­fes­sion­als Week, Robin Pa­tel speaks with the TWiM team about di­rect­ing a clin­i­cal bac­te­ri­ol­ogy lab­o­ra­tory, and how an ob­ser­va­tion made by a lab­o­ra­tory tech­nol­o­gist lead to the find­ing that Ure­aplasma species can cause a sys­tem meta­bolic dis­tur­bance, hy­per­am­mone­mia.