Cathy Cooke
@cathycooke.bsky.social
Interested in almost everything. Learn from the past, or repeatedly make the same mistakes | Retired pharmacist, FRPharmS HonFFFLM
With increasing numbers of online medicine consultations- please ensure everyone that friends & family know to check register www.pharmacyregulation.org/registers/ph...
I crocheted a cover for my tiny bolster cushion with a sunflower on each end. But when I look at it I'm getting flashbacks...
The Blue Guidelines remain an essential resource for forensic clinicians, supporting the assessment and management of alcohol and substance use disorders in police custody: https://tinyurl.com/yu4nc7a9 The current edition is under review, with an updated version due later this year
Detainees with substance use disorders in police custody: Guidelines for clinical management (5th edition) - FFLM
A working group report by: The Royal College of Psychiatrists and The Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, March 2020, also known as ‘The Blue Guidelines’.Those with substance use disorders who are in police custody are entitled to the same high quality and effective treatment, delivered by healthcare professionals with the appropriate competencies, as the rest of the population. Accurate assessment of associated morbidities, including the degree and severity of dependence, and of the need for medical intervention, is essential, because both intoxication and withdrawal can put detainees...
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Another risk is the incorrect picking of product when there are, for instance, several different strengths available for a particular drug
Nuffield Trust@nuffieldtrust.org.uk · last mo.NEW: There are ambitions to expand the use of ready-to-administer IV medicines. In a new @nihr.bsky.social #RSET blog, Steve Morris and Holly Walton look at what RTA IV medicines are & why more research is needed before the NHS scales up their use. www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/re...
Enjoyed listening to 'David Olusoga in Conversation' this evening, a Clevedon Litfest event at the lovely Curzon cinema
I 'quite liked' David Hockney's work (only seen through various media) until I saw his exhibition at the RA in 2012. Absolutely amazing seen firsthand
Stated that really don't like AI, and some tech bootlicker pointed out that I must have still used it because it's everywhere now, as if this was some sort of 'gotcha'. I mean, I don't like bird shit either. That it's ended up on my car so often doesn't undermine my stance, it reinforces it.
Not too decrepit to make a killing on Dell shares, eh?
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoTrump should come clean about his all-too-obvious decline | Margaret Sullivan
Please don't let AI take over. My phone is offering me a photo collection of 'selfies with Cathy' 🙄
Celebrities, rich people and ex-prime ministers should not make health policy. Prostate cancer screening is just not as simple as some are making out. There are real harms caused when people are treated unnecessarily.
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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I've just looked at 2017 for a little writing project. Ooh, not a good year, globally
We are a nation of immigrants. Most folks don't know their own family history more than a generation or so back. Many of the people on this rally are unknowingly protesting against their own grandparents or great grandparents. What a time to be alive.
Led By Donkeys@ledbydonkeys.org · 3mo agoImmigration make Britain brilliant
It’s ok to acknowledge when the work feels heavy. In forensic and legal medicine, and across secure and detained settings, professionals are often exposed to complex and emotionally demanding situations. Recognising that emotional load is not a weakness #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
Trying out the roasted barley, rye and chicory drink in a suitably annotated mug
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It's #WorldImmunizationWeek Vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives since 1974 — not by accident, but because ordinary people made the decision to protect themselves, their children and one another. That’s 6 lives every minute, every day, for more than 5 decades https://bit.ly/4mH2HWi
This makes me sad - not only lost public art but public art history - Antony Gormley's first civic commission. But councils of all colours are having to make hard choices. What makes me angry and sad is the secrecy - this is public money and I don't see a justification for hiding the sum received.
Mr RobertBob@mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 3mo agoReform’s failing Kent council quietly selling off the family silver. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/22/a...