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cimoreneThe last two weeks of classes have been some of the most boring hours of my life, I think.
Of course, basic knowledge of health and healthcare is a must for anyone filling a job description which deals largely with helping the disabled. Sure. But did we really need to spend over half an hour learning for the millionth time in our lives that tobacco and alcohol are bad? Did we have to have what an allergy is explained in detail lasting for about ten minutes? I'm not talking about the kind of potentially-interesting detail you could find in a high-school or higher-level biology textbook: this was basic Allergy 101 shit, the stuff I've known since before I can remember, the stuff that everyone already knew when Health was a required class back in high school.
For the first part of the lecture I was suffering in the resigned belief that everyone was just as bored as I was and that everything was equally unnecessary and completely devoid of new information for everyone (the only new information I gained in those three hours, in fact, was how to operate a single-use insulin injector, which took about 3 minutes).
But I was disabused of this notion when the lecturer asked if we all knew the difference between benign and malignant tumors and the woman behind me said she didn't and asked what they were. At this point, it seems quite possible that someone in the room didn't know that allergies can be potentially fatal, or that allergic reactions are caused by the immune system. Possibly even someone didn't know that alcohol is bad for the liver or that people with developmental disorders should be treated by the medical system as fully worthwhile human beings.
Of course, basic knowledge of health and healthcare is a must for anyone filling a job description which deals largely with helping the disabled. Sure. But did we really need to spend over half an hour learning for the millionth time in our lives that tobacco and alcohol are bad? Did we have to have what an allergy is explained in detail lasting for about ten minutes? I'm not talking about the kind of potentially-interesting detail you could find in a high-school or higher-level biology textbook: this was basic Allergy 101 shit, the stuff I've known since before I can remember, the stuff that everyone already knew when Health was a required class back in high school.
For the first part of the lecture I was suffering in the resigned belief that everyone was just as bored as I was and that everything was equally unnecessary and completely devoid of new information for everyone (the only new information I gained in those three hours, in fact, was how to operate a single-use insulin injector, which took about 3 minutes).
But I was disabused of this notion when the lecturer asked if we all knew the difference between benign and malignant tumors and the woman behind me said she didn't and asked what they were. At this point, it seems quite possible that someone in the room didn't know that allergies can be potentially fatal, or that allergic reactions are caused by the immune system. Possibly even someone didn't know that alcohol is bad for the liver or that people with developmental disorders should be treated by the medical system as fully worthwhile human beings.
