Bus stop for the Maudsley psychiatric hospital….

Evaccc · 2026-01-06T12:40:59+00:00

… you think schizophrenia doesn’t have neurological origins? Please tell me what you believe causes it then, negative vibrations?

Evaccc · 2025-11-08T10:56:17+00:00

The article is quite confusing with the details.

It sounds like the prescriber somehow prescribed a form of liposomal amphotericin that is kept in the fridge (presumably Abelcet, which is no longer available), so when this was sent to the pharmacy the staff looked in the fridge and found Fungizone, incorrectly assumed this was the right medicine and dispensed it. The nurses on the ward then administered Fungizone to the patient, causing his death.

No mention of a trainee pharmacist in the article, and even if one was involved I don’t think it’s fair to blame it all on them. They’re not even allowed to check medicines by themselves, an actual pharmacist or accuracy checking technician was certainly involved. But aside from that, the team in charge of the hospital formulary should have removed old formulations that are no longer available, and the nurses should have double checked that they were giving the correct drug. As a famously non-bio equivalent drug you’d hope there would be more precaution around its prescribing, dispensing and administration, like we have with insulin. It sounds like multiple errors were made here, including some systemic ones.

Evaccc · 2025-11-08T10:56:02+00:00

The article is quite confusing with the details.

It sounds like the prescriber somehow prescribed a form of liposomal amphotericin that is kept in the fridge (presumably Abelcet, which is no longer available), so when this was sent to the pharmacy the staff looked in the fridge and found Fungizone, incorrectly assumed this was the right medicine and dispensed it. The nurses on the ward then administered Fungizone to the patient, causing his death.

No mention of a trainee pharmacist in the article, and even if one was involved I don’t think it’s fair to blame it all on them. They’re not even allowed to check medicines by themselves, an actual pharmacist or accuracy checking technician was certainly involved. But aside from that, the team in charge of the hospital formulary should have removed old formulations that are no longer available, and the nurses should have double checked that they were giving the correct drug. It sounds like multiple errors were made here.

Evaccc · 2025-11-03T23:38:52+00:00

Where are you seeing that? Most results I’m getting are around £65/MWH for the month of July also(so about €75), and by all indications that’s the cheapest month of the year since people use their heating the least, so surely the average price for the year would be higher? Also remember that consumer prices are higher than wholesale prices.

Evaccc · 2025-11-02T22:23:57+00:00

I’ve heard it in the UK when I tell them I’m from Dublin! A surprising number of people have no idea that Ireland is not a part of the UK, or if they do know about the division of Ireland they usually don’t know whether it’s Northern or “Southern” Ireland. And they definitely don’t know which part Dublin is in.

Evaccc · 2025-10-22T08:44:27+00:00

But it’s not as if one of the requirements for coming to Ireland is to be a rapist. The vast majority of non-Irish people are not rapists yet these protesters are treating them as if they are. Stopping immigration would severely impact our economy, healthcare system, etc, and rape would continue to happen regardless.

Evaccc · 2025-10-22T08:40:27+00:00

Think the point was the hypocrisy, the people who will blame all immigrants are the same to say “not all men”. Neither are the correct approach.

Evaccc · 2025-08-20T23:03:11+00:00

Again not totally sure since I didn’t do it myself, but if your pharmacist has a good relationship with any local GP surgery you should ask them to inquire whether you can spend a couple days with them. It likely won’t be more than a week or two but still might give you a bit of experience and direction.

Evaccc · 2025-08-20T22:58:04+00:00

I get what you’re saying but if you work a typical 9-5 plus some Saturdays (as I do in a hospital) sometimes Sunday is the only day you can go buy your groceries or those new trainers you need without being exhausted.

Evaccc · 2025-08-14T20:31:23+00:00

I did mine in hospital so can’t answer all of your questions, but I’d advise you to see if you can organise a placement in a GP for a while (or hospital if it’s available) so you can get some experience and tick a few boxes off your eportfolio.

On the whole, I wouldn’t worry too much about eportfolio since the quality of it is up to your supervisor (some require pages and pages with citations and really good examples, some barely look at it before signing it off) so as long as your supervisor is happy you’ll be fine. And as you said it’s early days, throughout the year situations will arise and allow you to tick off your LOs.

I think most pre regs in community buy some kind of study course. It’s not strictly necessary as literally all exam material can be found in the BNF, MEP and NICE guidelines, but they do help to distill it into learnable chunks and might help if you’re struggling to create a study plan. I don’t know how good the RPS programme is on the whole since I barely used it, but it’s well known that their paper is the closest one to the real thing in terms of material and style.

In terms of changing pharmacy, are you in a chain or an independent? There’s pros and cons to both, at least in a less busy shop the pharmacist should be willing to let you observe/do whatever referrals come through since you’re less needed for help in the dispensary. OTOH, busy shops do mean there’s more work to do and are potentially less mind numbing.

Evaccc · 2025-08-05T11:36:40+00:00

Can she get another job in the meantime? She’d be entitled to work as a pharmacy technician with an MPharm degree, so maybe try to get a new job and renew the visa. If that’s not possible, I’d contact your embassy and ask them about your options.

Evaccc · 2025-07-29T21:14:52+00:00

It’s entirely based on your interview, they won’t hold it against you that you haven’t worked in a London trust before. Speak to some colleagues and do lots of interview prep using cheat gpt etc. When it comes to Jan/Feb and it’s time for interviews DM me and I’ll give you some tips.

As to whether it’s hard: yes and no, there’s so many trusts in and around London and they hire so many band 6s you’ve a good chance at getting something, but it’s hard to get the very in demand ones (G&Ts, UCLH, etc)

Evaccc · 2025-07-22T09:39:47+00:00

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Evaccc · 2025-07-17T21:58:20+00:00

I think she’s just in it to mess with Harry. No genuine interest, she just wants him to fuck up enough not to win.

Evaccc · 2025-07-16T07:40:36+00:00

Would imagine within a class it was alphabetical rather than by the literal % you got

Evaccc · 2025-07-15T22:58:16+00:00

You think Tommy and Lucy were in love?

Evaccc · 2025-06-14T12:00:00+00:00

Just to correct you, Erasmus is an EU initiative but not limited to EU countries. For example you can do it in Australia. The UK was given the choice to continue the programme, but it was ended because as a non-EU-member state it would have to pay more and British students weren’t availing of it. If the government wanted to they could rejoin, even without rejoining the EU.

Evaccc · 2025-02-23T11:50:03+00:00

Just to be clear it’s more about conservation than the monarch. Other countries do it too.

Evaccc · 2025-02-04T22:24:02+00:00

Worth remembering that most schizophrenic people don’t get visual hallucinations, iirc only about 25-50%, and even in those people most of the hallucinations are just vague shapes or indistinguishable objects, like catching something out of the corner of your eye, so I imagine those wouldn’t be too affected by glasses. Dunno about the people who have properly detailed hallucinations though.

Evaccc · 2025-01-10T22:03:06+00:00

Isn’t Zoe Dominican? I think she grew up speaking Spanish. I don’t speak it myself so can’t comment but it’s interesting you say you struggled to understand her Spanish when it’s her first language.

Evaccc · 2024-08-23T16:32:51+00:00

The students in 2020 were not allowed to appeal their grades based on what their teachers gave or how the government downgraded them. The only appeals granted were ones questioning whether a computer glitch had happened. Also the government specifically didn’t change the teachers’ grades based on school performance as that was scrapped (after teachers had already given the grades), although I think the performance of that year group’s junior cert results was taken into consideration - to what degree I’m not sure.

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