Cathy Cooke
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Still here (what am I doing?!) Tip - learn from the past (and data), or repeat your mistakes | Retired pharmacist FRPharmS, HonFFFLM
South West England, UK
Joined December 2009
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? 1/6
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Professor Alastair Denniston: The future regulation of AI in healthcare
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Creating a framework that is safe, fast and trusted.
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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
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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“Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.” - Jean Piaget
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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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Well done, Bristol
Anti-immigration march met by large counter group
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Note the opt out, for those who wouldn't want their mobile device to be known. Public testing of the Emergency Alerts system - https://t.co/MVBdMdU9aF
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Your mobile phone or tablet may get an emergency alert if there’s a danger to life nearby. Alerts tell you what to do to stay safe.
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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: https://t.co/DGC47LDBxJ
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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 https://t.co/vyk4KqlH3m
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Everything should still be written in Fortran 77.
🚨: 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
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I solved Numble No.771 with 5 calculations using 6 numbers in 2m:39s ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ = 812 Numbles solved: 16 https://t.co/yeJEywsN19
#Numble #Nurdle Follow us at @NurdleGame
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A simple word guessing game
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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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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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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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daily #referdle978: 9/25 🟩3️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ https://t.co/2h3ib2J4Wz
#referdle b: @referdle.bsky.social
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MHRA approves adrenaline nasal spray - the first needle-free emergency treatment for anaphylaxis in the UK
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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today, 18 July 2025, approved adrenaline (epinephrine) nasal spray (EURneffy) to be used for the emergency treatment of serious...
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