A odd, underdiscussed, difference I noticed between the US and Germany (and presumably other European countries) is around packaging. In Germany pretty much any

A odd, underdiscussed, difference I noticed between the US and Germany (and presumably other European countries) is around packaging. In Germany pretty much any medication comes packaged for retail in a cardboard box with tablets on one of these bubble sheets. Similar to most over the counter stuff in the US. In the US the pharmacist puts the tablets into an orange container with the precise counts requested by the prescription and with an individualized label. I wonder how much of the logistics issue in the US is from the individual packaging work required.