Would you work for Amazon for $90k?

[WVUPharm2007]

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Wait, no free prime membership? I'm out.

Edit: Who cares about the 401k match anyway? Apparently according to Dave Ramsey it is better not to contribute until you are debt free anyway.

That dude is an idiot.

 

[RxPreceptor]

Well, clearly some people need some first hand experience/better perspective dealing with automation, insurance, & everything that can go wrong in between

 

[grumpyRph]

and nobody has mentioned the grey area of narcotic dispensing. spotting fake rx's and inappropriate prescribing?

i wish things were more automated now! like someone mentioned earlier... a lot of e-rx's can't even automate typing that well.

i actually could spend more time on mtm's and vaccines if i didn't have to deal with how far behind technology is in the health care world. failed faxes, cmn forms, inaudible voicemails, never ending phone trees to get through to the docs, OYE!!!!!

why am i counting aspirin by hand? is this a joke? why are we pouring 120ml and 240ml bottles of tylenol and ibuprofen for kids all day?

i kinda think like fully automated pharmacies would just end up like sad, broken down vending machines.

 

[owlegrad]

and nobody has mentioned the grey area of narcotic dispensing. spotting fake rx's and inappropriate prescribing?

i wish things were more automated now! like someone mentioned earlier... a lot of e-rx's can't even automate typing that well.

i actually could spend more time on mtm's and vaccines if i didn't have to deal with how far behind technology is in the health care world. failed faxes, cmn forms, inaudible voicemails, never ending phone trees to get through to the docs, OYE!!!!!

why am i counting aspirin by hand? is this a joke? why are we pouring 120ml and 240ml bottles of tylenol and ibuprofen for kids all day?

i kinda think like fully automated pharmacies would just end up like sad, broken down vending machines.

You took the words right out of my mouth. The fact that faxes and voicemails are still a thing is just mind boggling. E-Scripts should have replaced them 10 years ago at least. The doctor should have an app on his phone to cover 'emergency' scripts outside business hours. Written scripts might have a place in the world (discharge from ER for example) but they should be the weird things that new techs and interns don't quite know what to do with since they are so few and far between.

And then once you do get the E-script it is for a product that doesn't exist, a form that doesn't exist, written for a nonsensical amount, has conflicting directions (my favorite is when the sig says one thing but the note field says another), or any of an innumerable amount of other things are wrong with it.

As for your examples of counting tablets and pouring liquids, again you are so right. The least any pharmacy should have is a Kirby and all liquids should just be dispensed in stock bottles. Heck even most meds should be able to be ordered as amounts that a typical script calls for and dispensed as unit of use containers. It's just nuts that we order 500 count bottles of anything and count by hand the same numbers all.day.long.

 

[Greeney]

An insurance adjudicating robot that is going up against enemy robots at the PBMs that don't want to pay money and will be incentivized to muck everything up.

Oooh, we could actually really use one of these.

 

[Greeney]

Just like in my field, it will not replace all pharmacists, but will likely replace many.

What's happening in radiology that has you concerned?

 

[RxPreceptor]

Oooh, we could actually really use one of these.

Alright, "super fighting robots"...the economic carnage. The future of capitalism, in the year 20XX

 

[deleted103644]

What's happening in radiology that has you concerned?

Hasn’t happened yet, and will probably make my job a lot more interesting over the next decade or so, but I’m not sure I could in good faith tell a first year medical student (a decade away from being an attending) to start down the same path.

You guys have a shorter training time frame, but would have to imagine the potential career length is contracting for you too.

 

[PharmtoCS]

Until someone can design the self-checkout machines at supermarkets not to lock up after every other transaction I will not believe that pharmacy can be automated in any meaningful way.

 

[grumpyRph]

Until someone can design the self-checkout machines at supermarkets not to lock up after every other transaction I will not believe that pharmacy can be automated in any meaningful way.

just think about each customer who needs specific manufacturers. they would rip the machine out of the ground.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

The funny thing is that I'm the one that's been running around flailing my hands about the death of labor and the need for the emergence of a new economic system in the mid-far future...

...yet I'm really not that concerned. I'm 35 and expect to be needed until I'm 50, easily.

 

[Sabril]

I have a little knowledge in programing and can write some programs to automate my job. We also have a parata. That really frees me up to go do my techs' jobs.

 

[wagrxm2000]

I have a little knowledge in programing and can write some programs to automate my job. We also have a parata. That really frees me up to go help my techs do their jobs.

I guess only you know the secret to destroy all pharmacists jobs right?

 

[Sabril]

I guess only you know the secret to destroy all pharmacists jobs right?

No need. Destruction of pharmacy is already an automated process.

 

[Secret_Informant]

For finance information and motivation, what are your opinions on Grant Cardone's Cardone Zone? He seems to be an upstanding individual with a no-nonsense approach that appeals to me (albeit the words that make immature individuals giggle).

Listen to his June 15 podcast and you will get what I mean.