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by pavel_lishin 911 days ago
Pharmacists can also catch obviously-wrong prescriptions - "This should be milligrams, not grams. If you take 20 grams of this, you'll die, in a spectacular and gruesome fashion."

(Granted, pharmacists can also miss things like this - which is why technology, checklists and humans working together are probably the best solution.)

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I can't think of any situation where detection of things like wrong dosages, drug interactions, incorrect prescriptions, etc. couldn't be better tracked and identified by an automated system than a human.