Xrayser Work has Xrayser developing conspiracy theories this week

Xrayser The laws around drugs are supposed to protect the public, but these two examples show that to be nonsense

Xrayser I've been a very good pharmacist this year, so here's my Christmas present list. First of all, I'd like a new contract, as the one I've got is so old-fashioned...

Are we beginning to follow the lead of the Consumers’ Association and exert our rights on the high street? Or are we – to quote our Antipodean cousins – a nation of whingeing poms?

If I manufactured trendy gadgets or designer handbags, it would be OK to play the market to boost profits. But suppose my products were something essential to wellbeing, such as medicines. Shouldn’t the law prevent manipulation of supply by whatever or whoever?

Don’t get me wrong – I’m not advocating we abandon all pharmaceutical treatment of ill-health – but the ‘pill for every ill’ belief is not right either.

It’s not enough to say: “For me to succeed needs but mine enemies to fail.” Such a view was short-sighted even in the good years, let alone in 2011, says Xrayser

Xrayser I read today that it’s the little things that cheer us up – such as fresh sheets when we get into bed or finding a £10 note in a pair of jeans.

A patient brought in a script last week from a surgery with an in-house pharmacy. When told it would be just a few minutes they laughed, and said the other pharmacy had told them they were too busy to dispense anything other than antibiotics that evening.

Saturday morning, October 1, Xrayser Pharmacy. Being in a bit of a back water, Saturdays are dead most weeks so despite being NMS D-Day – and the end of the month – I reckoned I could cope without a dispenser that morning...

“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door,” they say, so when I read that C+D is to hold a Dragons’ Den session at the Pharmacy Show I got thinking about the sort of things we really need in pharmacy.

I know it's bad manners to talk about how much you're paid, but my income has gone down. I have had to cut my pension payments. I've had to delay replacing our ageing delivery van and postpone...

Fast food is food. And for most people it’s not their food that is causing the obesity, but snacks. Just as the wicked stepmother offers Snow White the poisoned apple, so we lead our little ones onto the path of diabetes, heart failure and stroke without realising.

The GPhC, NHS PS. drug packaging and utility suppliers all come under scrutiny as Xrayser asks: What are they for?

Ever wondered if you've been doing the job too long? Why not try the Xrayser Personality Test.

A community is as much about the people in it as the area it encompasses, Xrayser says

"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain” was a quotation that sprang to Xrayser's mind this week when he opened the post to find the fax copy of a repeat prescription request...

'You can't put a price on health,' they say, but you can put a price on providing it, Xrayser says.

Isn’t technology wonderful. That’s usually something you hear your gran say about the microwave, but this week I’ve been thinking those very words – not only because I am writing this sat in the sun with a laptop and a cold G&T, but because I have persuaded the editor to allow me to tweet. Yes, I am now @Xrayser.

Talk about improving health and everyone knows the right messages – stop smoking, lose weight, exercise more, drink less – so why don't we do it? It's like every government that comes to power...