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Health Education in schools
See School Section of the Report - Page 6
Miscellaneous
Other activities of the Health Education Officer included
acting as a Group Leader during the Royal College of Nursing's
Refresher Course at Bedford College in July and lecturing during
the October Refresher Course. Training students, lecturing to
nurses on the social aspects of disease, preparing exhibitions
and displays and other routine work continued during the year.
All Health Educators are expected to act as shining examples
of their theories but to the patient who said "But doctor you
tell me to do this and to do that, and yet I know that you don't
follow this good advice yourself ''
The doctor replied "Dear madam, you must look at me as a
signpost on the road to health: I need not therefore walk beside
you". (l)
(1)International Journal of Health Education
Vol. 11, No. 1. January 1959. - Page 42