{"id":1360,"date":"2015-11-29T16:16:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T16:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2019-01-07T17:09:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T22:09:23","slug":"why-do-pharmacists-still-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2015\/11\/why-do-pharmacists-still-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Pharmacists Still Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent part of this otherwise relaxing&nbsp;Thanksgiving weekend at the urgent care with a sick kid, then&nbsp;making subsequent phone calls and visits&nbsp;to both the pharmacy and the doctor to clear up some confusion with the prescription. Why is this necessary?<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell, a pharmacist&#8217;s job is to 1) count things, and 2) prevent medications from having negative interactions.<\/p>\n<p>These both seem like things doctors&nbsp;(nevermind computers) are capable of doing for us. Why can&#8217;t&nbsp;doctors distribute&nbsp;medication directly to their patients?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent part of this otherwise relaxing&nbsp;Thanksgiving weekend at the urgent care with a sick kid, then&nbsp;making subsequent phone calls and visits&nbsp;to both the pharmacy and the doctor to clear up some confusion with the prescription. Why is this necessary? As far as I can tell, a pharmacist&#8217;s job is to 1) count things, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-healthcare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-lW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3699,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}