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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Rise of the machines? R2D2 maybe doing your job in the near future.
Just read a really interesting article this morning from back in April regarding the use of a robot to fill prescriptions at Loyola University Hospital. The robot has been effective at reducing the errors that come along with being human like drug mix ups and misreading of medications. These are not forgivable errors and they happen and continue to happen in part because of the increased workload on pharmacist and many more factors that I don't have time to get into. My question is this, we know that this will drastically decrease errors in filling scripts but will it eliminate critical pharmacy positions and maybe have an unintended consequence of perhaps easing the shortage of pharmacist slightly by eliminating some these positions. I don't know but just some thoughts. I have posted a link to the article just click on the title of the post and you will be magically transported to the webpage.
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Why aren't pharmacists able to read the handwriting on the wall? Pharmacy, much more than other medically related professions can be delegated to robotics, not to mention technicians. There will be a glut of pharmacists in 3 years, thanks to the money hungry schools, cost containment, the flood of foreign graduates, but primarily due to the passivity of the pharmacy professionals in not being able to comprehend the role of their field in society.
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