We have had some problems scheduling the lectures with different people absent and some of the people that are giving the lectures having there own busy practices. I know that several of the lectures that were done to day were based on materials that I wrote and slide shows that I put together. It is hard to know though how much of the nuanced material about risk and benefit and communications and team work is getting through. I know that the first one on surgery was pretty on topic. I then asked if they had talked much about ethics and we did review the concept of double effect. It was a little hard to get across the ideas of reviewing your motives.
When talking about children the lecture seemed to be a concentration on the issue of treatment and then I did talk about issues such as communication and the use of play therapy, art therapy and story telling imaging and acting out events as a way to understand what children understand and to communicate with them. This just seems like such a very strange to ask people to concentrate when you still are working to make sure that the medications you need are available.
I am now progressing to writing simple sentences. For example “Amos speaks Vietnamese; people laugh”. What I found out is that laugh and smile is the same word and the to make it laugh you add big to smile. Therefore there was a lot of laughter when I the amended sentence with “to” which means big was added.
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You know I think most children like to be told the truth in a way they can understand for their age. If we do not tell the truth there will always come a time when it has to be said and then we have mistrust with them. So I think the truth is best told from the beginning.
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