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Anyone receiving MenB vaccination as part of outbreak control measures needs to be aware that it takes 1-2 weeks for the immune response to develop and that a second dose is needed later. This is why prompt antibiotic prophylaxis is essential for close contacts of MenB cases.

UK Kidney Care. 🤷‍♂️ Because people with chronic kidney disease are notoriously resilient to all kinds of infectious diseases.

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@DrLKVaughan @TheSnoozeDoctor 'Clinician' Funny how he doesn't say 'nurse'

@kcisc @TheSnoozeDoctor Yes, Ian is a nurse by background. Did not worked on a ward for most of his career. Went academic/educator route early. Then shifted over into management.

What always amazes me is that these individuals would rather cosplay as doctors and downplay their nursing background. I don’t know what his doctorate is in, but he seems to miss that there is nothing wrong with being a nurse. Highly skilled professionals, big yourselves up!!

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen on the internet. Afroman had his house raided by Ohio Adam County deputies… who found absolutely nothing… broke his door, trashed his place, allegedly had $400 go missing… and then they refused to pay for the damages. So, like any reasonable rapper would do… He turned his home security footage into music videos, mocking them. And then, the deputies sued him for FOUR MILLION dollars… because they didn’t like being made fun of. And Afroman’s response? He dropped ANOTHER music video. In his own words: “Unconfidential informant lied to Police to get out of some trouble. Adam County Sherriff officers made a mistake by believing the lie. Raided my house, found nothing, refused to pay for the damages and filed a lawsuit against me, Afroman, for exercising my freedom of speech! This is me holding trial in one song. I hope you enjoy it.” They said his videos “ridiculed” them… so he decided to show them what that actually looks like. And the best part? A jury basically said… yeah… you don’t get to raid someone’s home, end up in their surveillance footage, and then cry because they used it to make fun of you.

@TheBMA , isn't it time for test case here? Take a locally unemployed doctor and tell them to apply (as they meet essential criteria for role). @BMA_James_Steen

The Fact @Walmart hasn’t Made Her it’s National Spokesperson is Crazy…

@wendyburn @ColCurph @anaesthetic_spr In this analogy, this is less akin to being head of the airline, and more CEO of the pilots prof. association. Agree re buisiness exp. I doubt that the airline CEO would pretend to be a pilot by omission and not be upfront about their qualification being one of ground crew.

@ColCurph @anaesthetic_spr @kcisc The CEO of an airline won’t be a pilot, they will come from a business/management background.

The CEO of the Royal College of Nursing should be a medical doctor, not a nurse. Discuss.

This was epic from the cameraman, caught the person using the laser in 4k 😭😭😭😂

No mention of nursing at the @eternalwalluk charity he heads up either.

@theiaincameron bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… @mrmarksteel

The island of Unst in Shetland is the UK's most northerly. It is so distant from London that of the Norse countries' capitals*, only Reykjavik is farther away. The nearest train station to Unst is very nearly in Bergen, Norway. (* Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Reykjavik)

@nhsswipecard Seems to be a dance teacher in Edinburgh...

@kcisc Nurse?

'NHS clinician' 'Dr' ...

‘I’d do it all again’ Matt Hancock As a GP practice we lost a third of Nursing home residents in the first wave due to the decisions made by leaders to discharge infected patients to homes It was done without mitigation of the risks & limited/poor PPE

It will never not amaze me how far north European cities are when overlaid at the same latitude as North American cities (and vice versa).

One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934. MGM loved it, took him on and he went on to become an Oscar-winning screenwriter.

Take your card number and starting from the second-to-last digit, double every second digit moving left. If doubling a digit produces a number greater than nine, subtract nine from the result. Then add all the digits together, the doubled ones and the untouched ones. If the total is divisible by ten, the number is valid. If it isn’t, the number is mathematically impossible as a card number and the form rejects it on the spot. This is the Luhn algorithm written in 1954 by a computer scientist at IBM named Hans Peter Luhn. It still runs inside every payment form on the internet today. And it turns out that valid card numbers are not random. They follow this mathematical rule, and any number that breaks it is immediately disqualified without ever touching a bank’s systems. No server contacted. No database checked. No network request made. The validation happens entirely on your device, in milliseconds. The first six digits do additional work before the Luhn check even runs. They are called the Issuer Identification Number; the first digit identifies the card network (4 means Visa, 5 means Mastercard, 3 means Amex), and the following digits identify the specific bank that issued the card. This is why payment forms show you the Visa or Mastercard logo the moment you type the first digit. No server needed. The network is encoded in the number itself. The last digit of every card number is called the check digit it exists for no other purpose than to make the entire number pass the Luhn algorithm. When a bank generates a new card number, it calculates what the last digit must be to make the sequence valid, then stamps it on the card. It is a built-in mathematical fingerprint.

The accuracy tho😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Your brain at 2 AM writing a paper you started at 10 PM is operating in a neurochemical state that most productivity systems spend thousands of dollars trying to replicate. Sleep deprivation suppresses your prefrontal cortex. That's the region responsible for self-criticism, second-guessing, and the voice that says "this paragraph isn't good enough." At 2 AM, that voice goes quiet. Not because you've achieved some zen state. Because the hardware running it is shutting down for the night and you won't let it. Meanwhile the deadline is dumping norepinephrine and cortisol into your system, which narrows your attention to a single point. Your brain physically cannot multitask in that state. No checking your phone. No opening a new tab. The stress response has commandeered every available resource and pointed it at the Google Doc. Lowered inhibition plus chemically forced single-task focus. That combination is almost identical to what Csikszentmihalyi documented across 30 years of flow state research. Clear goal, immediate feedback, challenge matched to skill. A 12-page paper due in 8 hours hits all three criteria by accident. The lo-fi beats matter more than people think. Repetitive audio at 60-70 BPM synchronizes with resting heart rate and suppresses novelty-seeking circuits. You stop hearing it within minutes. It becomes an auditory wall that blocks interruption without costing you any cognitive load. It's the cheapest sensory deprivation chamber ever built. And the black coffee at midnight is pharmacologically different from your morning cup. Your adenosine levels have been building all day, so the caffeine is fighting a much stronger sleep signal. The subjective experience of "wired but calm" at 1 AM is a different drug interaction than alert-at-9-AM. Same molecule, completely different neurochemical environment. Every semester, twice a semester, four years straight. That's 40 sessions of accidental deep work before anyone had a name for it. The grade was an A- because the conditions were perfect. Not despite the chaos. Because of it.

This is how Shazam works.