I disagree that it’s as complicated as you’re making it seem. There are only a few cases, relatively, where the “age/weight/race/level of sickness” is taken int

I disagree that it’s as complicated as you’re making it seem. There are only a few cases, relatively, where the “age/weight/race/level of sickness” is taken into account, and the prescribing physician would be the one that makes that call rather than a pharmacist. There’s also nothing that says that information couldn’t be transferred along with a prescription. It’s not like a centralized system wouldn’t have all that information about you, along with any other prescriptions and even non-prescription medications previously purchased with Walgreen’s (or any other pharmacy, they all do it) rewards card. A computer can also certainly be trained to identify outliers, and can certainly process complex interactions (not that there’s nearly as many or as varied and diverse as you’re making it seem) better than a human can, with the same data. At the end of the day there’s a finite number of these interactions, and while things like dosage might affect some, overall it’s groups of drugs that interact with each other which is generally looked at. Finally, at least for me, every time I get a prescription filled I get literally a 5 second conversation with a pharmacist at best. 10 seconds if it’s a new prescription with a particularly bad side effect. Suffice to say, I don’t think you’ve shown why exactly a human would be better than a machine at this job.