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One big thing pharmacies do is answer questions about drugs to educate the users in ways the doctors prescribing them often don't and also check for drug intera
by rtkwe 2y ago
One big thing pharmacies do is answer questions about drugs to educate the users in ways the doctors prescribing them often don't and also check for drug interactions to protect patients. Sometimes you wind up getting prescriptions for two things from different doctors and one doesn't notice or ask to find out that your prescription from doctor A has a bad interaction with drug B they're prescribing.
Also the US mail is also being actively degraded so the ability to reliably get mail delivered to the entire US guaranteed may just disappear soon.
- gruez 2y ago>One big thing pharmacies do is answer questions about drugs to educate the users in ways the doctors prescribing them often don't and also check for drug interactions to protect patients. That can easily be done over the phone.
- rtkwe 2y agoIt /could/ be but we also all know how great remote call centers do actually caring about the people they're supposed to serve. The real outcome will be fewer people servicing more customers for less money.
- CaffeineLD50 2y agoI've had uncaring in person pharmacists
- rtkwe 2y agoOk. It doesn't counteract the high likelihood that trying to go to a centralized call center style is doing to degrade that experience even further.
- CaffeineLD50 2y agoPoorly managed and trained people are the same in person or on the phone
- CaffeineLD50 2y agoI've had many prescriptions and the pharmacist was pretty useless about side effects. It would be after I researched the new side effects I'd have that I trace it back...to the drug I was prescribed. Your second point is probably more salient. But we do have UPS & FedEx.
- rtkwe 2y agoThey're not required to deliver your package where USPS is and can be done for flat rates. It's the problem with spinning out government services and trying to run them like a business, they're not there to make money they provide a service.