Read the thread from 5 years ago, get that we need people with expertise in medicine _at some point_ in the chain of care, but unclear why it all needs to be at the end.
Background: finding myself needing to visit the pharmacy quite frequently for prescriptions for family members (so no opportunity to visually inspect the patient), whenever the pharmacist goes over dosages and instructions, it’s nearly verbatim what’s printed and in the bag, and it’s always pills. Seems like you could have the pharmacists that check for bad interractions in some pharmacy Mission Control, and my small bottles of pills could be assembled from big bottles of pills by a machine.
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There’s a lot on the backend. The pharmacist’s interaction with you is only a part of the whole thing. Running a pharmacy is a lot of work (any regulated industry is a lot of work). Also the pharmacist has to deal with the prescribers and drug manufacturers. And that’s a lot of work, too.
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