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Confused about one thing, did the robot put 38.5 pills in a bottle, or did it formulate a pill containing 38.5 pills worth of meds into one pill, which the resi
by Turbo_hedgehog 12y ago
Confused about one thing, did the robot put 38.5 pills in a bottle, or did it formulate a pill containing 38.5 pills worth of meds into one pill, which the resident gave to the patient? I'm thinking sitting there and giving the patient 38.5 pills for the patient to swallow would have been considered unusual?
- radicalbyte 12y agoFrom my experience with pharmacy robots (my wife owns a Pharmacy, their group have just decommissioned their expensive robot because it doesn't work): It almost certainly put 38.5 pills per day in a bottle. At which point the dispensing Pharmacist or Assistant should have started asking questions. Doctors -up these kind of things all the time; around 5% of prescriptions based on the very scientific measurement of the relative size of the good/bad stacks on my wife's desk.
- FireBeyond 12y agoIt attached them in 39 little bags to a loop of plastic. You can see the picture near the bottom. If I see 39 individual pills in 39 individual bags like that and am being told that I am to administer them, at once, to a patient, alarm bells in my head are ringing, as a paramedic. Swallowing 39 tablets like that is not fun for anyone, even aside from risks of OD.
- bentcorner 12y agoI'm wondering about this too. I guess we'll have to wait until Part 3. One other thing that went wrong here - through no fault of her own, the mom was in a different room with the brother. She knows what the patient normally takes, and would likely have started asking questions when she saw her son taking way more than what he usually took.