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Jun. 30th, 2020 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesHarvard continues virtue-signaling its little heart out; yesterday I got forwarded a request from Cambridge to tell them where in our curriculum we address "race and racial justice". We're a DENTAL SCHOOL. I suppose I can see why we might, in the context of being a health care profession, and there are definitely racial disparities in health care, which we do touch on in the context of global health. But we have enough trouble trying to cram everything we need to teach in order to produce competent general dentists according to CODA into four years as it is. I wonder where the engineering school addresses racial justice in its curriculum? The whole thing reminds me of the MASH episode where they end up building a fountain out of bedpans because some rear-echelon colonel wanted the camp beautified. The fountain gets run over by an ambulance almost immediately.
It didn't help that yesterday I was in a meeting in which the rising second year students were frustrated about what the medical school doesn't tell them, and it turns out HMS and Cambridge both tend to forget about the HSDM Dean when they have all-Deans meetings. So we're all being left out.
This morning I thought I was going to have to go somewhere completely else for my 11:15 meeting, because it's trash day and there was a lot of jackhammering going on around here somewhere besides. Fortunately that seems to have stopped by about 9:15. I can't decide if it was Snow St or Nantasket St. I suppose I could wander down there and find out, if it didn't look like it was going to rain any instant now.
I think my righthandedness is catching up with me, since I haven't had a massage since November. My right shoulder has knots in at least two places, one of which is practically in my armpit, and I can't find a way to stretch against it. I wish it would let go and be an inflammatory issue, so Advil would work. I don't have any muscle relaxants.
It didn't help that yesterday I was in a meeting in which the rising second year students were frustrated about what the medical school doesn't tell them, and it turns out HMS and Cambridge both tend to forget about the HSDM Dean when they have all-Deans meetings. So we're all being left out.
This morning I thought I was going to have to go somewhere completely else for my 11:15 meeting, because it's trash day and there was a lot of jackhammering going on around here somewhere besides. Fortunately that seems to have stopped by about 9:15. I can't decide if it was Snow St or Nantasket St. I suppose I could wander down there and find out, if it didn't look like it was going to rain any instant now.
I think my righthandedness is catching up with me, since I haven't had a massage since November. My right shoulder has knots in at least two places, one of which is practically in my armpit, and I can't find a way to stretch against it. I wish it would let go and be an inflammatory issue, so Advil would work. I don't have any muscle relaxants.
