Robert’s Harvard Education Day#3. “Graduation Day but no Harvard Diploma”

Well today was the last day of the conference and overall it was excellent.  I learned a lot of new information and that much of what I do in the office is also done by the experts. For example we were told using Neosporin is unlikely to be helpful and very likely to be harmful (Neomycin ranks 2nd and Bacitracin ranks 5th among allergic producing substances in patch testing) and antibiotics are grossly overused (they gave us a strategy to try to convince patients that avoiding antibiotics is a good thing).   In addition to these gems I learned a bunch of other pearls.

The one thing that disappointed me was that I got a certificate saying that I completed 19.25 hours of continuing medical education but I didn’t get a Harvard diploma.  Actually that doesn’t really bother me because I have something much better than a Harvard diploma, I have a daughter-in-law with a Harvard diploma.

After the conference finished we decided to explore the city.  The weather has been perfect since our arrival. Well I should say, had been perfect.  The conference ended at noon and the first time I had to walk around town it was overcast and drizzling.  We did get to see a few nice things.  We were looking forward to seeing the fall colors and we got a taste of that today.  (see below)

 

We had a wonderful lunch at the Union Oyster House.  It purports to be the oldest restaurant in the USA open continuously for business since 1826.  It was apparently a favorite of JFK’s and now it is one of ours.

We saw the Old North Church and a statue to honor the man who made it famous.

I am sure you all remember the Longfellow poem about Revere’s ride to warn of the British invasion.  Apparently there were several riders that night and the most important of them was a man named William Dawes.  I suppose Longfellow felt that if he wrote, “Listen my children and you will hear of the midnight ride of William Dawes” it wouldn’t work so history was changed in the name of poetic license.

One thing that we have repeatedly heard in this town is that they love their Bruins (Boston not UCLA), Celtics and Red Sox.  The one thing they don’t like here is the Yankees.  (See below).

 

We haven’t made any plans for tomorrow but I am sure food will somehow be involved.