I went to London
The session started with a lecture about various blood-borne
parasites. Personally I would have benefitted from the slides having had a few
less words and a lot more pictures.
And as for the practical session… The girl sitting next to
me in the practical session was grumbling that what she was seeing down the
microscope was shaking. She was genuinely surprised when I pointed out that
everyone's microscopes were shaking because she was rhythmically bashing the
bench in tune to the strange music in her head.
Another woman was employing a novel way to identify
blood-bourne parasites. Rather than attempting to recognise salient features
and elucidate a clinical history, she was making moral judgements. Apparently
it stood to reason that God wouldn't allow humanitarian aid workers to contract
malaria (!) and she got quite irate with the lecturer who dared to say it
happened on a regular basis.
I must admit I did get a lot out of having the opportunity
to spend uninterrupted time at a microscope with various slides of parasite
films. But I could have got a lot more had I actually been able to get any time
with the experts
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