Jen Smith
@jensmithmi
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Pharmacist. All opinions are mine, mine, MINE!
Birmingham, England
Joined August 2016
Want to know how to use Ovid to search Medline & Embase, then combine and de-duplicate results? Here's a video: https://t.co/DS3rkfsvrR
#CPD #LiteratureSearching #MedicinesInformation #pharmacy
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Interpreting liver blood test results can be challenging. How should clinicians interpret abnormal test results? New Education article offers guidance and a visual summary #BMJInfographic 🔗 https://t.co/QLrTJlDI1H
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"Statistics for Non-Statisticians" by Birger Stjernholm Madsen (Springer, 2nd Edition) The book title every PhD student wishes they'd found in Year 1. If you're a researcher who needs to understand statistics without becoming a statistician, this is your roadmap. What makes it
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A young doctor asked me, “Why keep reading basic science?” Well, where to start? You never want to reduce your practice to robotically following algorithms and protocols — though those checks and balances have their place in patient care. As a neurologist, I don’t see reading
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If you see a drug ending in "vaptan" and get immediate, soul-crushing anxiety, this is for you.
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Oh noooo, it’s time to tackle the most dreaded of electrolyte abnormalities (at least from a learning perspective): hyponatremia! While we can’t claim to address all aspects of this giant salty topic...
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Study of AI sycophancy finds that DeepSeek and Llama models are among the most sycophantic and Gemini, Mistral, and Claude are among the least sycophantic (though still high relative to humans). "Overall, deployed LLMs overwhelmingly affirm user actions."
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A letter in the @PJOnline_News notes the risk of mis-selection now that there are two posaconazole suspension: 30mg/mL gastro-resistant and 40mg/mL plain. What is worse is that there are generics of 40mg/mL, so risk is unlikely to be short-term. https://t.co/qyav0fjocI
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New to the e-library: The Movement Disorders Prescriber’s Guide to Parkinson’s Disease (2025) Find it here: https://t.co/QReEtAvXI3 under ‘Nervous System’, ‘Movement Disorders’ #RPSLibrary
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Antidepressants differ significantly in their effects on body mass and other cardiometabolic measures, a review has found. Read more on MIMS:
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Report added to the hub - A framework for the safe, efficient and effective implementation, use and maintenance of AI in health and care in London.
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This document provides an overview of the agreed way of implementing and monitoring Artificial Intelligence (AI) products in the London health and care system.
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The question every educator is asking: "Did my student actually write this?" The solution is NOT ⤵️ — better detection software. — going back to handwritten exams. — pretending AI doesn't exist. Here's what I learned from reading this book ⤵️ 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳
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Pharmacist warned for approving scripts via ‘thumbs up emoji’ https://t.co/H4QMkUUJHv The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has warned a pharmacist who used WhatsApp to “remotely” check and approve prescriptions @TheGPhC
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The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has warned a pharmacist who used WhatsApp to “remotely” check and approve prescriptions.
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ICYMI: TI Therapeutics Letter 157: How to🛑antidepressants 👉 https://t.co/i0YXOaW0Fo 🐌 Avoid abrupt discontinuation 🖥️ Monitor patients after dose reduction 👩🏽🏫 Patient education + shared decision-making to minimize harms, improve outcomes #deprescribing #MedEd #antidepressants
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📣Join our PROMPPT webinar for expert insight into reducing opioid use for patients suffering persistent pain. 🧑⚕️You'll learn how the PROMPPT toolkit supports personalised reviews - and find out about the associated pharmacist training package. Our guest speakers will:
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Data protection involves being mindful of everyday interactions and habits. It's about being aware, not just about following 'procedures'.
Data privacy concerns that go far beyond the seemingly harmless waiting room - a new blog featured on the hub today. https://t.co/RwLQ2Skf0G
#patientsafety
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So, when you're querying #AI, be careful about 'leading questions'. "What do you think of..." may be better than "Do you agree that...?"
Article added to the hub - When helpfulness backfires: LLMs and the risk of false medical information due to sycophantic behavior. https://t.co/4YMxCoRdmz
#patientsafety
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This is the best phenytoin guide I've ever seen
tldrpharmacy.com
Today is the day we tackle phenytoin. I want you pumped and ready to take it down. Because it’s a beast even more beastly than the roguish wampa of vancomycin.
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🤖 Potential dangers of AI in Medicine - De-Skilling - Mis-Skilling - Never-Skilling Nice editorial: https://t.co/xDK19Yux4R
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How good is #AI? The worst it's ever going to be. ChatGPT-5 hallucinates less than 4o. So if you're looking at research on using AI, the really old stuff (like six months ago!) may not reflect current capability. See
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Our smartest, fastest, most useful model yet, with built-in thinking that puts expert-level intelligence in everyone’s hands.
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You should be so lucky to have people throughout your research career that you can openly bounce ideas to and from - especially if they complement your strengths in your areas of weakness - it is a rare and precious gift.
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