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> I contend most people don't even speak to a pharmacist anymore.

While compounding pharmacists are still useful for those esoteric formularies, I would wager "normal" US pharmacists are still relied upon by the vast segment of the US population who are near-functionally illiterate and innumerate, on a big combination of drugs (don't get me started on how unhealthy swathes of the US population are), and cannot be bothered to work out for themselves drug interactions (much less how to get off of the drugs if possible). The disjointed nature of the US healthcare system promotes such inefficiencies.