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All my local pharmacies have automated pill dispensers that handle hundreds of medications and flag bad combinations. The pharmacists at my local pharmacy seem
by Aloisius 11y ago
All my local pharmacies have automated pill dispensers that handle hundreds of medications and flag bad combinations.
The pharmacists at my local pharmacy seem to spend most of their time advising patients and dealing with their problems, verifying the pill dispensers actually dispensed the right medication and it is all intact, handling physical scripts for things like controlled substances, calling doctors when a prescription doesn't make sense or wasn't clear, flagging possible drug abuse, managing inventory, handling drugs that can't easily be dispensed by the machines like insulin and checking how much a person's insurance will cover and if it is still valid.
- incongruity 11y agoAnd 20 years ago, there would have had to be multiple pharmacists and techs to do all of the things that are being done by machines now. Just as I said above, technology is often more of a force multiplier than a strict substitute.