The day started with a very early breakfast (6:30am) in
order to be at the Congress for the 7:15 session. This is called a breakfast
session and has, in the past few years, been dubbed the “no breakfast,
breakfast session” So, we have all learned and had breakfast before we went.
However, this year, we were pleasantly surprised when we had more than enough
to feed everyone twice! We even had little cupcakes to celebrate World
Pharmacists Day! The two presentations during the breakfast session were not up
to the usual high standard set by previous years. Well, I didn’t think so
anyway.
For the next round of presentations, I was a co-chair
with Steve, and Australian military colleague and we had four presenters from
Denmark, Lebanon, Japan and UK. The title of the session was Rising to the
challenge: Evolving roles of emergency pharmacists. All of these
presentations were highly topical and very interesting, with the presenters
themselves being very engaging. Mornos was had after two presentations.
It was then time for lunch and the MEPS business meeting
whilst we ate our lunch. We allow 1.5 hours for this however, this year it was
all done and dusted within 30 minutes, amazing!
The afternoon session consisted of five presentations
around the theme of Innovations in military and emergency pharmacologistics.
The last presentation of the day was my pick – History of Navy medicine –
German U-Boats in two World Wars, given by Frederik Vongehr. He is a very good
presenter and managed to keep his audience engaged right up to the last word
with interesting anecdotes and a bit of humour. Afternoon tea was had between presenters
3 and 4.
After that, it was back to the hotel to change and meet
downstairs for dinner. Again, we had to arrange our own taxis and we all met at
Byblos Sur Mer, a refined Lebanese restaurant, not too far from the Presidential
Palace. We had two long tables and were served a number of dishes all for
sharing. I was full after the third course! Before we knew it, it was 10:30pm
and definitely time to go home. I didn’t actually get into bed until after
midnight due to the long dinner which was a lot of fun.
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| Cupcakes to celebrate World Pharmacists Day |
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| Dinner |
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| Chinese rice wine |
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| Dinner venue |
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| Dinner menu |
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