My small contribution to the Romney Bandwagon

I don't have an iPhone, so I can't download this not-particularly impressive social media application, designed to promote would-be-US-president Mitt Romney for his campaign for the newly-founded state of Amercia.  They'll need their own currency, I reckon - so here's my draft for US Lol-lars, and with a potential national motto.

No need to thank me, Mitt.  A trip to Camp Daffyd will do nicely.

Community Pharmacists: What's the worst that could happen

Today I found out that a hospital near me is considering that nearly all patients being discharged will get an additional discharge letters with instructions to hand them into their usual pharmacy.  The advice will suggest they arrange a targeted MUR, or alternatively discuss their medicines with the trusted local healthcare professional.

On the surface of it: great.  It directs patient to an aftercare service that us hospital pharmacists can't provide, where we can rely on any medicines problems being sorted out professionally.  It might even stimulate development of professional services so community pharmacy isn't as reliant on the current volume-based system.

I'm just wondering if it could end up not so rosy.  So I'm wondering if community pharmacists could have a think about what's the worst that could happen in this scenario.  Is there something that could go wrong, or is this my English skeptico-cynicism trying to pick holes in it?

Comments much appreciated.

What am I on about?

Last night I had an idea of having a look at what sort of things I tweet about on my main account @kevfrost.


I used the service Tweetbackup (http://tweetbackup.com) to generate a CSV file of recent tweets which I then categorised manually in MS excel.  It pulled off the past 837 and I've used the past 500 as my sample.  These 500 were tweeted over a 2 week period between 21st April and 5th May.


My self-defined categories of tweets are as follows

Computing      111             (Including social media, hardware, gadgets)

Humour            94

Pharmacy         73              (Including medical and other professions aligned to pharmacy)

Media              63              (Music, movies, TV, newspapers and other "old media")

Politics             50              

Interaction        48              (Tweets purely about interacting with other users)

Life                  26              (Tweets purely about what I'm doing now)

Work               17             (My day job)

Spectacle         10             (Photos etc that made me go wow)

Running             8

Now obviously, there's certain events that bias my results, this period covered the UK local elections 2012 and the London Marathon, so there's perhaps more about these than normal; and I wasn't running due to illness so there's less about that than normal.  This is to be expected in a reactive social media like twitter - I post to react and reflect on what's happening and what I'm seeing.