Tony you are correct, it is a fifth year pharmaceutical student is carrying
out the survey.
Pat
On 6 Nov 2023, at 2:27 p.m., Tony Sweeney <tonymsweeney@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Paul,
glad to see that you're 'hail and hearty' again.
I could be wrong about this but I thought the survey re pharmacies was a
student-lead one and not an official survey if you like.
Perhaps someone could clarify this for us Pls?
One other thing comes to mind for me is that when the GP posts a prescription
to the pharmacy it would be so great if the patient could have a copy
messaged to them also but perhaps that would be for the GP not sure.
Of course this would be only useful for those of us in to tech.
Finally on the C wordd, was down the local with Deirdre my wife lastt night
and we were nearly struk down as all the forthcoming season's paraphernalia
was all about the place.
At least one good thing for people like me is that not being able to see is
that we don't have to look at that stuff and six weeks before it's time too!
Thanks for minutes as always.
Tony
On 06/11/2023 14:09, paulfgriffith@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello folks, thanks to Adrian/Stuart/Marti, who compiled notes while I was
lying low with covert.
Winter has come in with a bang,
Were past Halloween and heading towards Christmas.
Hoping I will not have to suffer Christmas songs or jingles until December.
There were 9 Participants for today’s Dublin Tech meeting.
While talking about Zoom meetings, Adrian wanted to know if anybody has
tried to log onto a Zoom meeting using their Ecco show device.
Mary tried this in real time without success. It seems according to
Stuart/Adrian that one must ask Alexa to send a link to your smart phone to
get this started.
Rather like setting up BBC SOUND.
Adrian and Mary have offered to try and access Zoom doing this with the link
that Alexa will send to their phones, and report back to our next meeting.
We all welcomed Tom back to our Monday meetings after his recent illness.
Tom wanted to know if he could use or change Alexa’s voice while using his
Kindle machine.
Tom changed his Alexa voice but when he started his book on Kindle, it
reverted to the usual Kindle voice.
Cearbhall checked this out, and it seems that this is not possible at the
moment.
Marti who was gifted a brand new Ipad, wanted some information on
transferring her smart phone information from her phone to her new Ipad.
Stuart said that she should log on using her Iphone password, and
everything should be available.
She also has some nice Ear Buds, and wants to know how to use them.
Presumably they are digital and she should go to settings, Blue tooth, and
she will find them in her discoverable devices. The name and make of the
Ear buds will be called out and you click here to connect them.
She also got advice on how to increase her gig memory.
Most people use that offer of 99 cents per month for an extra 50 Gigabytes
of memory.
Mary complained about the fact that Alexa was reading to her a book that
she read about a year ago, and not the book that she is currently reading.
Joe said that she should check this out on her Amazone Alexa on her phone.
She should ask Alexa to read her current book, giving the name of the book
and the author.
Mary will do this and report back to the meeting.
Mary wondered how she can get the ingrediants for some house desserts she
was looking at on Utube.
Stuart and Adrian said that she should find the title of the Utube video
she is watching and when she sees the name , she should double click here
and arrow right until she sees the list of ingrediants for this recipe if
not she should click more, to find this
There was a big discussion on the survey undertaken by people in Cork to
find out how vision impaired persons get on with their chemist of choice.
It seems that one of the most annoying things to people with no sight or
very little, is that many pharmacies cover the braille that is on the
medicine box with perhaps a price ticket.
Mary and Cearbhall suggested to Paul that he should request a blister packet
for his medicines. Then his medicine would be ready for a day by day
dosage and this is great for keeping an eye to see that one takes the
right amount on the right day.
It seems that this is a very worthwhile survey and could result in some good
improvements with contact with your local pharmacy.
Joe has a problem with his Alexa device, when increasing the volume of
sound there is a 25 second delay before this happens. This happens when
listening to the radio. Paul wondered if this only happened when listening
to the radio, and Joe will check this out.
The meeting concluded by wishing Stuart good luck for his forthcoming Blind
Tennistournanent being held
In Wrexham.
Go for it Stuart.
That’s all folks
Paul
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