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Interesting day..
I may have mentioned before that I decided to go back to school for nursing. For my school, you're required to have your CNA before being accepted to clinicals. My first day of CNA class was today and I can already tell this is going to get interesting. The chapter was on appropriate protective gear (gloves, masks, etc.) and the conversation went to things you can pick up from just skin contact. A student asked about scabies and if it was contagious. The RN who is teaching the course looked puzzled for a moment and said, "scabies is a Vitamin C deficiency so you can't catch that from a patient." 
I know they both start with SC but come on, you're an RN. Don't mix up scabies and scurvy. Between pronouncing things completely incorrectly, and being a bit callous when discussing genetic diseases among certain racial and ethnic groups, I can tell it's going to be a long 4 weeks for me. She seriously made me cringe today.
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Good luck!
I think the teacher would drive me nuts. I'm in a tax class and the teacher cannot pronounce the word rail road. She says ray road...
KB, I TOTALLY feel your pain. I was explaining my graduate program to a friend and she told me it reminded her of the new show Community, which I feel like you should watch now too. To give you an example of my experience, I'm in a public health intro class. We had a chapter on genetic disease/genetic screening that we were discussing in class. We were answering some of the discussion questions, one of which was-
Which of the following disease cannot be detected by giving the mother and father a genetic screening test pre conception?
a. some genetic disease
b. some genetic disease
c. Downs syndrome
d. some other genetic disease
The teacher was like, the answer is C, which is correct. Somebody asked why. The answer to that would be because Downs is a chromosomal abnormality that you can't pick up in a test like that.My teacher didn't say that, however. He said, "Because Down's syndrome usually presents itself with mongoloid features."
A) doesn't answer the question
C) PRETTY sure no one uses 'mongoloid features' to describe someone anymore
I have many more stories about him, including the day he taught us all how Jews celebrate Ramadan.
She said, "what's that disease black people get?? Oh yeah, sickle cell. There's one that Jews have too..." I mean, I understand that there are certain genetic conditions that do affect certain populations but cheese and rice, she just said it so flippantly. She also spent a good half of the time talking about why she doesn't trust doctors, vaccines or medicines.
I don't have anything productive to add to this thread, but I'd like to say that I'd really enjoy more examples of how your teachers are morons. This sh!t is cracking me up!
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This is ridiculous. Tell us more.
And if anyone needs more info on scabies, please feel free to ask. My roommate my first year of undergrad got scabies by sleeping with the dirtiest man I have ever seen (before I was rooming with her). She thought she had dry skin for months and months and then went to the health center after burning herself in chemistry class and found out she was infested by bugs. The health center made her bring me a pamphlet about it.
Needless to say, I sterilized everything and obsessively went to the health center every time I had an itch. Then, she decided she didn't need to take the medicine!! THEN, one day I got home from class and she said that she had borrowed my sweater because "it fit". I let her keep it.
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I'll give you the back story to the Ramadan comment - he told us an anecdote about how a group of whites, a group of African Americans, and a group ofHispanics all had chronic back pain that got better. He told us the Hispanics and African Americans were more likely to contribute their relief to the fact that they prayed about it and God healed them. Then he asked us why. When no one got the answer he wanted, he said "It's because throughout their history, blacks have suffered more than anyone and know that the only thing that can help them is Jesus, white people just don't understand." I was the only white person in the room, and everyone else was like, "AMEN! White people just don't understand."
So then I said something about how Jews also have a history of suffering, but if you asked a group of Jews why their pain went awya, I was sure theyw ould say medicine. His response:
"Well, Jews do have a lot of cultural history, like Ramadan, but they're still white."
He says a lot of othe really dumb stuff, but it would require too much backstory to go into. That's why KB's stories are better
I had a professor who told us that by reading to your child you could help them to create more brain cells.
Um, no.
I like to write the stupid things professors (and fellow students) say in the margins of my notebooks. I crack myself up.
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