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Transcontinental anaesthesia: a pilot study (2013)

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Re: Transcontinental anaesthesia: a pilot study (2013)

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Anaesthesiologist seems like one of the first doctors that could be entirely replaced with a robotic system. They are basically there to monitor and asses multiple vital factors, which seems entirely appropriate for a control system.

Pharmacist is the medical job that is already completely obsolete and could be eliminated if not for unions and inertia. Pharmacists almost never do compounding anymore. They just take pills off a shelf and hand it to you. If manufacturers and doctors could agree on standard drug regimens, counting out pills would be unnecessary as well (or could be replaced by minimum wage labor or robotic/vending machine-like devic…

I guess this is one of the rare cases today where removing the middleman DESTROYS value.

Most of the time they might just handle the medication they're asked for. But they ALSO VALIDATE the treatment.

Think of them like a firewall. A human one, mostly silent.

Re: Transcontinental anaesthesia: a pilot study (2013)

#32
post #7

Anaesthesiologist seems like one of the first doctors that could be entirely replaced with a robotic system. They are basically there to monitor and asses multiple vital factors, which seems entirely appropriate for a control system.

Pharmacist is the medical job that is already completely obsolete and could be eliminated if not for unions and inertia. Pharmacists almost never do compounding anymore. They just take pills off a shelf and hand it to you. If manufacturers and doctors could agree on standard drug regimens, counting out pills would be unnecessary as well (or could be replaced by minimum wage labor or robotic/vending machine-like devic…

I guess this is one of the rare cases today where removing the middleman DESTROYS value.

Most of the time they might just handle the medication they're asked for. But they ALSO VALIDATE the formula and dose are correct.

Think of them like a firewall. A human one.

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