Andrew Yang predicts pharmacy jobs will be automated

[deleted562805]

Great video by Paul Tran exposing the reality of the pharmacy job market. Nothing new under the sun. People on SDN have been saying this for years. Whoever goes into pharmacy is not financially responsible. Wish I could post this in the pre-pharm forum, but unfortunately I will get banned.

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[owlegrad]

God I can’t believe the mods would ban you over something like that! What are they thinking? How dare they????

 

[mentos]

You won't get banned but that student mod will move it in this hidden forum anyway. He's always hiding the truth from prepharms.

 

[projektreverb]

In other news, water is wet.

 

[Sine Cura]

You can automate to the point of mass unemployment it once you handle the GIGO aspect of prescribing and the liability part of dispensing. Forgot to mention the regulatory aspects

 

[Weqchal]

One of the healthcare centers I work at decided to install a pharmacy kiosk to be open on nights and weekends and made the pharmacy 8-5 Monday-Friday. It effectively eliminates all overtime shifts available to the techs and pharmacists.

 

[JustFillIt]

In other news, water is wet.

Dude where have you been on our quarantine thread?

We went from complaining about being for, or against, wearing masks to all sorts of deep conspiracy theories, and topped it off with solving the mysteries of Stonehenge and the pyramids.. apparently Stonehenge exists to travel back in time to get laid by Scottish lords... not sure how that benefits me but hey - what happens in Scotland in the 10th century stays in the 10th century. I think right now they are stewing about media bias or something like that.. your missing out!

 

[allantois]

Yang is a lunatic

 

[mentos]

Yang is a lunatic

He's right though.

 

[DagS132]

So if you don't get banned, should we ignore this post since apparently they only shut down truth threads?

 

[WVUPharm2007]

He's right though.

Yup. Only politician that sees where the economy is going.

 

[mentos]

Yup. Only politician that sees where the economy is going.

He's not really a politician. He doesn't lie, cheat or attack his opponents. You have to backstab people to gain power. He uses knowledge, truth, math and science to backup what he says. Someone like that could never win the election in America.

 

[pharmBear]

He said doom and gloom... He must be a member of sdn....I think I'm going to send this link to every student that comes through my rotation.

 

[Lubeckd]

He isn’t as woke as you guys think he is.

 

[El-Rami]

Yup. Only politician that sees where the economy is going.

The whole idea that automation will lead to mass unemployment and people receiving barely enough to get by with Universal Basic Income is a thought that keeps me up at night.

 

[Sine Cura]

It's exciting times due to emerging social unrest

 

[hye345]

To those who say that pharmacists (and I mean pharmacists, not technicians or cashiers) will be replaced by robots in the near future:

A couple weeks ago, I received a prescription for phenazopyridine 200mg. Dosage was 1 tablet every 4 hours as needed. No big deal, it’s not the patient would suffer a great harm, but I decided to call up the ER doc confirm. Told him that this was double the max recommended dose. To paraphrase his response: “sorry, The computer must have put in that dose automatically”.

 

[sfachine]

You actually believed him.

 

[deleted562805]

To those who say that pharmacists (and I mean pharmacists, not technicians or cashiers) will be replaced by robots in the near future:

A couple weeks ago, I received a prescription for phenazopyridine 200mg. Dosage was 1 tablet every 4 hours as needed. No big deal, it’s not the patient would suffer a great harm, but I decided to call up the ER doc confirm. Told him that this was double the max recommended dose. To paraphrase his response: “sorry, The computer must have put in that dose automatically”.

Pharmacy software is old. Many health care software systems including pharmacy still run on DOS, software from the 80s

 

[DH1987]

If pharmacy does become highly automated, they will still likely need people to build, program, maintain, and repair those automated devices. It will likely be a very long time before robots/machines can repair or maintain themselves.

Enter CS.

 

[DagS132]

To those who say that pharmacists (and I mean pharmacists, not technicians or cashiers) will be replaced by robots in the near future:

A couple weeks ago, I received a prescription for phenazopyridine 200mg. Dosage was 1 tablet every 4 hours as needed. No big deal, it’s not the patient would suffer a great harm, but I decided to call up the ER doc confirm. Told him that this was double the max recommended dose. To paraphrase his response: “sorry, The computer must have put in that dose automatically”.

Would it be possible that it could have been human error? Such as inputting wrong data?