Losing jobs to robots?

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So I got an email update from our golf course on Geese Managment..as you guys may already know, I'm adamantly against ducks and geese hanging out around the neighborhood as I feel they need to migrate back and forth..not stick around year round and get fed bread crumbs and get fat and get diabetes..

So I learned what "Addling" is...I guess you oil the egg and it cuts off the oxygen supply thereby suffocating the embryo. I don't find that very humane...yet if we just crush the eggs, geese will just lay more eggs so it's important to trick the geese in thinking eggs are good. I like harassing the geese... but I just found out our HOA removed 3 geese that I once whipped with my fishing pole..and placed them in a wild life preserve in the area... they haven't come back yet.

Geese Management as Recommended by The Humane Society of the United States
Addling (oiling of geese eggs) is a process recommended by the Humane Society of The United States
Timing - Geese are paring up (mating) now through the first of April
Nesting - April through mid May, this is the time to addl.
Residents of Diamante are requested to assist by locating nest or spotting pairs of geese and locations they frequent. If you attempt to locate a nest take an umbrella with you to fend off the geese, and it is recommended that you go in pairs.
If you locate a nest or determine habits of pairs, please call the Pro Shop and report the location. If you decide to addl the eggs a Federal for must be completed as to location and number of eggs.
This is not a cure but a process, it is also recommended that harassment of geese will frustrate the geese into leaving.
DO NOT FEED
the geese, they have sufficient food and nutrition, it will also cause a wing deformity called angle wing which limits flight.
Additional information is available in General Manager's office.
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WVUPharm2007 said:
I'd be worried if I was a pharmacy technician.
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The robot I worked with at the VA made an error about every 10-20 scripts (over count, under count, dropped pills, stuck/mangled labels) so while it saves some time, it won't replace a person any time soon. I don't think I'd want a robot counselling me on my new meds either.
 
Famous quote from one of my professors:
"If you feel scared of a robot, well then you should be."
 
Can we make the robots perform Addling?
 
Naidim said:
The robot I worked with at the VA made an error about every 10-20 scripts (over count, under count, dropped pills, stuck/mangled labels) so while it saves some time, it won't replace a person any time soon. I don't think I'd want a robot counselling me on my new meds either.
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That's a ridiculous error rate. I would want my money back.
 
I heard a horror story at a nuclear pharmacy where a robot was supposed to compound 131-I capsules and kept failing miserably at calibrating the doses... the entire staff's thyroid bioassays were creeping up as they had to clean up after the thing and remake capsules by hand. While I was doing my rotation there, it was in the corner gathering dust and they had began ordering pre-filled capsules. That's a pretty expensive toy to not be worth anything!
 
Jenloga said:
I heard a horror story at a nuclear pharmacy where a robot was supposed to compound 131-I capsules and kept failing miserably at calibrating the doses... the entire staff's thyroid bioassays were creeping up as they had to clean up after the thing and remake capsules by hand. While I was doing my rotation there, it was in the corner gathering dust and they had began ordering pre-filled capsules. That's a pretty expensive toy to not be worth anything!
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I have witnessed this actually happening. It's not good 🙁 mostly the corporate bull**** that needs to be filled out.
 
The article says that the robotics-controlled pharmacy at UCSF has prepared 350,000 medications without error, though.

Although I suppose the tasks do fall more in line with what a tech does instead of a pharmacist.
 
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Jenloga said:
I heard a horror story at a nuclear pharmacy where a robot was supposed to compound 131-I capsules and kept failing miserably at calibrating the doses... the entire staff's thyroid bioassays were creeping up as they had to clean up after the thing and remake capsules by hand. While I was doing my rotation there, it was in the corner gathering dust and they had began ordering pre-filled capsules. That's a pretty expensive toy to not be worth anything!
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It's not a robot...it's just a machine/dispensing system used to compound I-131 capsules. But it won't just make them on its own...it requires human manipulation of the 6 arms, carousel, dose calibrator, etc.

My pharmacy was the first to test the prototype, and we've been using it ever since. It's a fantastic machine to minimize exposure to the staff...and speeds up compounding tremendously. Most importantly, it is a self containing system of the volatile I-131 material, and has a negative pressure gradient within the system to suck up the free Iodine in the air (for everyone's safety).

People always seem to be threatened by technology and gadgets that they perceive will take over their job. Honestly, we should use this stuff to our advantage to spend more time doing things in the field that merit more of our attention as pharmacists.

If I was at that pharmacy, I would've had them get off their butts immediately and call DraxImage to get the thing fixed!
 
Its Z said:
So I got an email update from our golf course on Geese Managment..as you guys may already know, I'm adamantly against ducks and geese hanging out around the neighborhood as I feel they need to migrate back and forth..not stick around year round and get fed bread crumbs and get fat and get diabetes..

So I learned what "Addling" is...I guess you oil the egg and it cuts off the oxygen supply thereby suffocating the embryo. I don't find that very humane...yet if we just crush the eggs, geese will just lay more eggs so it's important to trick the geese in thinking eggs are good. I like harassing the geese... but I just found out our HOA removed 3 geese that I once whipped with my fishing pole..and placed them in a wild life preserve in the area... they haven't come back yet.



:meanie:
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The HOA back home in FL mailed us a big long list of tips on how to manage the duck population. I can't remember exactly how it phrased it...but it suggested collecting the eggs, putting them in your freezer, and then throwing them in the dumpster. WTH???
 
meh, check out these bad boys:
http://www.pharmatrust.com/

Though I do wonder how tech-check-tech will affect things around here as it gets rolled out to community/retail pharmacies.
 
I have heard people say this will happen soon while others say it probably won't happen for another 20 or 30 or 40 or so years. I hate technology! I wish it would not advance any further....

Oh great! Now everyone is NOT impressed when I tell them I am a pharmacist. Just today someone told me that I will soon be replaced by a robot!!
 
Its Z said:
Can we make the robots perform Addling?
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Is the master thread jacker losing his touch? Usually it only takes one post. This second post seems desperate.
 
You bit....that's all it matters.
 
Tranny is fine. Ims bearing upgrade is what I want. This summer.
 
Its Z said:
So I got an email update from our golf course on Geese Managment..as you guys may already know, I'm adamantly against ducks and geese hanging out around the neighborhood as I feel they need to migrate back and forth..not stick around year round and get fed bread crumbs and get fat and get diabetes..

So I learned what "Addling" is...I guess you oil the egg and it cuts off the oxygen supply thereby suffocating the embryo. I don't find that very humane...yet if we just crush the eggs, geese will just lay more eggs so it's important to trick the geese in thinking eggs are good. I like harassing the geese... but I just found out our HOA removed 3 geese that I once whipped with my fishing pole..and placed them in a wild life preserve in the area... they haven't come back yet.



:meanie:
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Whipping geese seems kind of harsh...unless they attacked you first, in which case it's just self defense.:laugh:
 
They bit my daughter on the butt. Neighbor once fell running from one
 
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