On May.8, 2007 I went to a public lecture about palliative care in McGill University. From May 7 to 13, 2007 is palliative care week, also this year is the tenth anniversary of the Sandra Goldberg Memorial Lectures.
In this lecture, they mention about “palliative care is not just about cancer” , it should not just give at the last moment when people will die. Dr. Gain Domenico Borasio shows us lots of examples to support his ideas. Also, he tries to use those examples and facts to let public know how importance palliative care is in our life.
There were 3 speakers in this public lecture. The first one was a mid-age lady, and she was a host of this lecture. She started the lecture on time, and told some information about this lecture. However, she was not good speaker because she always read her notes during her speaking. The second speaker was better than the host; he is a little bit older than the lady. When he was speaking, he used power point to show the information and spoke clearly. The third one is Dr. Borasio. He comes from Germany, but he can speak English very well, that is very important to audience to understand. In addition, he used power point to show us lots of examples and facts.
The audience in the lecture maybe was 100. 85% of them were older people, the age were between 50-60. Some of them asked simple questions during 10 minutes, and also there was special one, he told us his own experience about palliative care.
In my opinion, I really like this project, and really enjoyed it so much. First of all, it was the first English lecture I went outside class in Canada. Secondly, I think it was a good chance to know more about the life in Canada. Also, it was a good model to show us what a good speaker is and what bad speaker is. Therefore, when we do our own experience we can pay attention about those points. In addition, it also was a good chance to know the classmates better; we ate dinner together, talked with each other and shared our interesting experiences in our life. That was good for us to build more deeply friendships with each other.
3 comments:
Cathy, are you competing with Alice to finish homework? ^^ So quick.
I realize myself that I am an elder man now.
I also need palliative care too.
haha... our lecture...well... nothing more to say,thanks to Hajji!haha...
This is a very interesting topic, so I wanted to go if only I am not so pressed with the research. Your group had no "procrastinators" so you could go and do presentation at this busy time. Good for you!
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