Yeah, as a doc (hospitalist) I need way more pharmacy support than I get. When you have 20 patients, receiving >15-20 meds on average all of which are interacting with all sorts of crazy stuff, yeah I am totally dependent on pharm-d’s checking, rechecking and checking some more. Computers do a crappy job of it (and I am the chief information architect for informatics at the hospital!) because for safety they don’t use judgement it just says no (my favorite was warning of a tylenol and aspirin interaction - you can buy that as an over the counter combination pill!) but a clinical pharmacist is a whole other level of help. They use knowledge and judgement, and can tell me what to do, rather than the computer which solely tells me not to do anything…
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