« Other uses for Pinard stethoscopes | Main | Fun model for teaching about pregnancy »

Nigerian workshop registration?

Lots of people who use email will have now received one of those priceless “Nigerian scam” proposals, usually offering huge amounts of money in return for just helping some poor “down on his luck” millionaire to access money in a foreign bank account. They offer a moment of light relief in the day and make entertaining reading before they are assigned to the Trash.

Today I received our first workshop registration from a Nigerian. It seems unlikely that someone would trek half way across the world to attend a program on Water Labour, Water Birth, even if it will be a valuable skills based program for midwives wanting to encourage the use of warm water in labour as a way of making birth easier. It would be a long haul journey for the one day, although they could have had the pick of venues: Sydney or Melbourne.

Reluctantly, this registration was Trashed. It would have been interesting to find out about birth in Nigeria and to discover if they have ever used water as a medium for labour. Sadly, we will never know......

Posted by andrea at January 30, 2004 01:30 PM

Post a comment