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I have literally never had a discussion with a pharmacist. I drive up, hand them my script through the drawer thingy, and they hand me back my drugs. In fact, in the last couple years, I barely even do that anymore; our doctors just call in our scripts, and we get a text message when it's time to pick them up, and that's that.

The idea that pharmacists have any meaningful diagnostic role in the US is risible.

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I always hear about these community pharmacists that consult with patients about medical issues, but I'm yet to meet one myself.

I suspect pharmacists are the only people that some class of Americans can speak to about medical issues because they have an open storefront.

I don't know what pharmacists know about drugs, but they're useful people to speak to about insurance issues. They know the rules around age cutoffs for optional vaccines, which generics are in stock, when something will be denied by insurance, etc.

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