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Listed below are comments made by Bemuzed between Monday, 6th October 2008 and Monday, 1st June 2009.

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The biggest mistake of your life? 6:19pm on 01 Jun 2009 I am a pharmacist. Perhaps my view is slightly different to that expressed by my colleagues. I have no problem with pharmacists being criminally liable for any practice mistakes they make, as long as all other professionals are treated the same way. This would produce a very sudden and severe brake to the improvement of service quality in all professions,after all we learn from our mistakes not from the things we do correctly. All pharmacists are trained in Clinical Governance, as a mechanism for professional improvement and the basis of this is transparency, which will not happen in an evironment of fear of prosecution. All pharmacists are subject to professional censure by our professional body if we are found to be lacking professionally and ultimately may lose our livelihood. If it is shown that a pharmacist has acted with professional negligence then I believe that the a criminal prosecution should be the norm and a custodial sentence on guilty verdicts should be the expectation, my colleagues may disagree with me. It is a matter of some regret that our professional body has again been shown to be merely reactive and as a result a perfectly good pharmacist who had a terrible lapse of concentration has been one of the casualties.
The pharmacist in question was complimented by the judge at her trial for her openness, typical of the profession in my opinion.
The deleveraging vortex 09:56am on 09 Oct 2008 The devil is always in the detail. A tiny sum, perhaps £750 million!!!!, from the commercial finance arm of one of the Icelandic Banks safeguards around 20,000 UK jobs. These companies are supported by an Asset Based Revolving Credit. Understandably the UK Treasury has frozen all assets of this bank. I hope they have the time to review the operation of this activity (which was always profitable and backed by audited assets). Time is of the essence and the next 48 hours will see these jobs go either way.
How close to capitulation? 4:20pm on 06 Oct 2008 Thanks to Robert for superb clarity during these torrid days.
Perhaps the best thing that will come out of this situation is that all who have experienced this insecure environment will never again believe anything that appears to good to be true. I certainly will do my utmost to create personal and business growth based on a solid foundation, any debt I take on will be secured by a quality assett. I have learnt my lesson, I hope others have as well now, and in the future. Everyone has a responsibilty to pass on these messages to those who have not directly experienced these events.
I wonder what political capital Al Quaeda etc will make of the usury of Western Capitalism versus the practices of Sharia based finance.

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