I was on my second, or maybe my third, when the place began to fill up and I realized, with a stab of happiness, that this must be an after-work hangout, with a prescribed happy hour and some sort of comestibles served up gratis on a heated tray.
Family congregating to celebrate a prescribed happy holiday season can have the opposite effect of what's intended.
This highlights the difficulties and challenges that come of stretching yourself thin and attempting to appease family members during this prescribed happy time.
(The market soon recovered its truth aversion by demonizing short-sellers. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, of New York, called them "looters after a hurricane". Jim Cramer, on CNBC, took to invoking terrorists. The regulators, here and in London, clamped down. Meanwhile, Bloody Mary, on Bali H'ai, is prescribing happy talk).
The idea that pills could boost memory or allow weary workers to put in 24-hour shifts evokes the dystopia of Aldous Huxley's 1932 science-fiction novel Brave New World, in which humanity depends on a government-prescribed "happy" drug called Soma.
Everything at the café is prescribed to help stimulate happy feelings similar to those we get from receiving a cuddle, and therefore cuddles will also be the only currency accepted at the café.
No wonder, he said, that he is prescribed medication for stress and "happy pills" for equilibrium.
This led to expectations that antibiotics would also be readily available in the UK and disappointment when they were not prescribed....some people are not happy with the doctor because oh they didn't give us antibiotics... (R3, Male, Iran, Interview).
A UK based qualitative study that interviewed 50 patients from caseloads of health visitors (n = 17), district nurses (n = 9) and a practice nurse (n = 1) reported that 49 (98%) out of 50 study participants were in favour of nurse prescribing and happy with the consultation and information provided by the nurse prescribers [ 42].
"My parents were happy to retire at the prescribed age," he said.
However, these were mostly prescribed by IHI, and, while CEOS were happy with their distribution, they otherwise may have chosen different areas to resource.
