Robots, Pills And Conflicts Of Interest
from the what-happened-to-the-human-touch dept
More and more, it seems, robots are filling the prescriptions you get through your mail-order pharmacy. And, as insurance firms encourage their customers to order from their mail order firms, the likelihood that your prescription is filled by a machine, rather than a person, is high. This raises several questions: do we really trust robots to get every single pill in the bottle? And the right pill, for that matter? Is there a conflict-of-interest in that large pharmaceutical companies often own a stake in the mail-order firms? Personally, I’ll take the friendly neighborhood pharmacist over a robot for this particular job.
Comments on “Robots, Pills And Conflicts Of Interest”
Why not?
Modern drugs have so many similar spellings, and every pharmacy I go to has so many foreign (or American) workers that are not literate in English. I would be very scared of life-depending prescriptions from such places.
This is a straightforward case of cutting out the middleman.
This is also a case where health insurers are the good guys, because they put pressure on pharmas to lower their prices.
Pharmacy Robot
Dan, why would you say this please explain.