Why can't the doctor verify all of this before prescribing? Seems to be some weird US thing.
Chances are, if any of them know about the medications you’re on that they didn’t prescribe, it’s because you self-disclosed on your intake form or told the nurse during intake verbally. This is not necessarily a great way to know for sure, because patients forget things and people write or type or select the wrong thing.
In this system, it’s much more reliable to have all the prescriptions flow down to one endpoint and have someone trained who can see the exact medications and dosages, and that person can then give the patient the relevant information they need at the time of service.
Doing away with this safety net to.. avoid addressing police overreach directly is a bad idea.
Are there any stats for how many potentially lethal errors they actually catch in practice?
I'm struggling to understand the logic in wanting pharmacists to be more ignorant. Even if cops couldn't interrogate pharmacists because they were all blind and dumb, they'd go to local doctors instead. The police are the problem that needs to be addressed.
You made a statement, it is up to you to back it up.
> I know from personal experience that pharmacists do catch errors, but I have no clue if anybody is keeping statistics on it.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
> I'm struggling to understand the logic in wanting pharmacists to be more ignorant.
This is IT security 101 - the less randos have access to a sensitive data the better.
> Even if cops couldn't interrogate pharmacists because they were all blind and dumb, they'd go to local doctors instead.
In context of US situation I guess the benefit if when out-of-state telehealth doctor prescribes and local pharmacy clerks don't have access to those records. The best theoretical end game would be to either have such records on encrypted device owned by patient or none at all.
> The police are the problem that needs to be addressed.
Last decade or so the tendency has been to solve this by technical means, where possible. Like e2e encrypted messages, encrypted iCloud/Google backups, recent announcement of local Google maps timeline, etc.
the argument is that pharmacists are a "last line of defense" against the fractured system or mistakes from doctors (or clerical errors etc) but their authority is absolutely not limited to correcting errors or double-checking with the doctor's office. In practice the pharmacists here are incredibly full of themselves, they'll refuse to dispense birth control, etc, and there is no duty for the pharmacy to ensure someone else will service you, they can just say "no" and that's it.