[aadvani]

Yes! But shouldn’t it be central? There are hundreds of thousands of clinical pharmacists answering similar questions every day. To your point- everyone asks unique questions so still get unique answers that they can then combine with patient- specific preferences to make personal decisions.

Am I answering what you asked ? Sorry if not!

[pabs3]

So when a hospital switches from in-house clinical pharmacists to your service, what happens? Do they leave the hospital and you hire them, or are they just fired and have to find a hospital you haven't taken over yet (what happens when there are none in their city)? Is there a way they could remain embedded in their hospital community whilst also providing expertise to your service, potentially you could get a wider variety of questions through your service this way too, to grow the range of things you can handle.

[aadvani]

The clinical pharmacist has so much to do, they’re like Swiss Army knives. Systems that take us on don’t fire anyone to do so; this just frees up their clinical folks to do more patient care duties. So, yes, we want to grow through them !

[pabs3]

Hmm, so their question answering skills will atrophy then?

[aadvani]

Yes, but most don’t seem to mind. There are so many other high ROI things for clinical pharmacists to do instead. Most want to round more or spend more time with patients instead .