I get that a pharmacist should review the prescription. And let’s say you even want employee-customer interaction; which is great.
But dispensing X pills from one bottle to another bottle is a solved problem right?
I needed an emergency prescription the other night and arrived at the pharmacy three minutes before closing time. The pharmacist was able to verify my prescription, dispense the pills, check their work, and complete my transaction with a minute to spare. It would take a very long time to pay off a machine that handled just the dispensing part.
As those two variables change, I'm sure they will replace the dispensing function for pharmacists. In fact this already does happen at a lot of pharmacies these days. Machines put the pills in bottles, then a pharmacist hands the bottle to you.
It's not like you could replace the pharmacist with a machine.
Edit: I’m dumb, the order of operations is backwards. You’re right, it’ll never be solved.