Still here (what am I doing?!) Tip - learn from the past (and data), or repeat your mistakes | Retired pharmacist FRPharmS, HonFFFLM
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Cathy Cooke retweeted
29 Nov 2025
When I post reservations on #AssistedDying, the response from its supporters is always the same: choice.
As if nothing more needs to be said. I’ve heard the same from Parliamentarians.
It’s a good argument, individual choice matters, but does it outweigh everything else?
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Professor Alastair Denniston: The future regulation of AI in healthcare gov.uk/government/news/profe…
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Cathy Cooke retweeted
21 Sep 2025
I have retired from seeing patients now but most days I think about it
I think about what I got wrong.
Usually in the diagnosis
Diagnosis is difficult. Algorithms pick up common presentations. Rarely is this real life.
This is why training, experience and supervision are vital
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Highlighting the importance of careless words
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During the week I sat for an hour with a man who has terminal cancer. He can no longer swallow and he knows he doesn't have long, but his brain is fine. He was full of praise for his palliative care team. He has very little pain, can breathe well, doesn't have any nausea now. 1/4
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Cathy Cooke retweeted
30 Aug 2025
“Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.” - Jean Piaget
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Cathy Cooke retweeted
30 Aug 2025
To be honest, not sure this new Strictly spin-off is going to be as popular as the dancing one... (Mill Hill)
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23 Aug 2025
Well done, Bristol
23 Aug 2025
Anti-immigration march met by large counter group bbc.in/47HuJeC
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Cathy Cooke retweeted
21 Aug 2025
Note the opt out, for those who wouldn't want their mobile device to be known.
Public testing of the Emergency Alerts system - GOV.UK gov.uk/alerts/public-testing
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The GPhC has issued an email highlighting emerging concerns in pharmacy practice. Pharmacy professionals are encouraged to review these updates to ensure compliance and patient safety. Read the full communication here: ow.ly/cHxB50WGBnG
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Cathy Cooke retweeted
9 Aug 2025
We must work hard to make sure nuclear weapons will never be used again.
Japan marked the 80th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Nagasaki as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba reaffirmed Tokyo’s commitment to a world without nuclear weapons reut.rs/45ax0h1
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Cathy Cooke retweeted
9 Aug 2025
Everything should still be written in Fortran 77.
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🚨: Voyager 1, currently over 15 billions miles away, still operates using 69KB of memory, 8 track tape and Fortran code written in 1977!
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A Bitter Pill: How pharmaceuticals are rewriting the rules of rivers, marine life and ecosystems that depend on them open.substack.com/pub/peterf…
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10 Aug 2025
I solved Numble No.771 with 5 calculations using 6 numbers in 2m:39s
✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ = 812
Numbles solved: 16
nurdle.fun/#/numble #Numble #Nurdle
Follow us at @NurdleGame nurdle.fun/#/numble
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Really good from @jburnmurdoch - tracks exactly what we hear in focus groups and see in polling data. Rise in disorderliness is what people are talking about when they talk about rise in crime - supermarkets developing ever more intricate ways to wrap up a leg of lamb/phone theft
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Cathy Cooke retweeted
2 Aug 2025
My favourite flower - the astoundingly lovely Grass of Parnassus 🌿🤍🌿
Growing here in #Oxford where it has been blooming since the ice age 🤍
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Cathy Cooke retweeted
2 Aug 2025
More than half the projected global population increase between now and 2050 will come from just eight countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United Republic of Tanzania.
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MHRA approves adrenaline nasal spray - the first needle-free emergency treatment for anaphylaxis in the UK gov.uk/government/news/mhra-…
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