SubscribePharmacology - The Science and Profession of Redundancy
We trust doctors with our lives. But we don't trust them to count out thirty pills, put them in a bottle and make sure they don't take ten for themselves. WTF?
But we do trust them to keep all kinds of drug samples on site, unaccounted for and freely accessible in the cabinet. This is a business process that needs to evolve.
You get sick. You call the Doctor. You schedule an appointment. You travel to the Doctor. Wait. Wait. Wait. You see the Doctor. She writes you a prescription. You travel to the pharmacy. Wait. Wait. Wait. You get your prescription. You go home, or back to work.
Why does the pharmacy exist? Each time I go to the pharmacy, they double check my medical history. They confirm that I am me. They check my insurance and submit the cost for reimbursement. They do the same thing that my Doctor's office did twenty minutes before. I take the risk of having a few self prescribing MD's (as if that doesn't already happen) for the huge savings in time, money and errors.
Pharmacology schools should quit accepting students, move faculty into supplying continuing ed to pharmacists and the government should begin the process of winding down this industry through natural attrition.
But we do trust them to keep all kinds of drug samples on site, unaccounted for and freely accessible in the cabinet. This is a business process that needs to evolve.
You get sick. You call the Doctor. You schedule an appointment. You travel to the Doctor. Wait. Wait. Wait. You see the Doctor. She writes you a prescription. You travel to the pharmacy. Wait. Wait. Wait. You get your prescription. You go home, or back to work.
Why does the pharmacy exist? Each time I go to the pharmacy, they double check my medical history. They confirm that I am me. They check my insurance and submit the cost for reimbursement. They do the same thing that my Doctor's office did twenty minutes before. I take the risk of having a few self prescribing MD's (as if that doesn't already happen) for the huge savings in time, money and errors.
Pharmacology schools should quit accepting students, move faculty into supplying continuing ed to pharmacists and the government should begin the process of winding down this industry through natural attrition.