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They do a ton lol. I make a ton of stupid mistakes (drug drug interactions etc) and they catch them and educate patients. Also they have insane burnout because they have to verify an insane number of orders/hour. Sadly pharmd school because very profitable so they multiplied the number of schools and combined with private equity and consolidating mega pharmacy chains a once decent profession has had horribly stagnant (or dropping) wages for over a decade.
But yeah a good LLM can do a lot of what they and I do.
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Maybe coz I'm relatively young (medically, at least) and have never had to take multiple drugs at the same time. Still, I would have thought the doctors would also take into account what other drugs you're on before prescribing anything to you. Is the pharmacist a second layer of validation, or do they have a more accurate history of your medications?
Well yeah you try but there are a lot of drugs out there and lot of complexities. We study everything and they just study meds, they are much better at the nuances of dosing, interactions, renal dosing, contraindications etc.
Your ability to catch all of these small things goes down when you are forced to see 20-40 patients a day.
Makes sense
Was never really sure what pharmacists do in the first place. It seems like I'd just give them the doctor's orders and they'd go in the back and fetch the medicine for me.