This seems a little bit like Woody Allen in the movie "Sleeper"

It's better than reading!!

The future keeps coming at us faster and faster

Nurses are the only essential in health care

I know nurses. My mother was a nurse. My sister is a nurse. My brother is a nurse. My sister-in-law is a nurse. My niece is a nurse. My other niece is a nurse. And my beloved wife is a nurse.

Nurses can never be replaced by technology.  Machines may eventually replace many of the tasks done by doctors and pharmacists, but machines will never be able to "care" like nurses.   Nurses are the best!!

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Robots were too late to replace me

One of the reasons I left hospital pharmacy practice was the mind-numbing tedium of much of my daily tasks. I kept thinking, "When are they going to develop robots to do this, so I can find better ways of helping the patient?".

Well it seems that finally have invented such robots.

Too late for me, though.

Can pharmacists be replaced by computers?

In the New York Times recently, the Nobel Prize winning Paul Krugman discussed the mistaken belief that higher education will ensure a good career.

He cited other economists who state that computers will be able to replace anyone who is doing, “cognitive and manual tasks that can be accomplished by following explicit rules.” Computers are much better at doing these things. These are exactly the kinds of tasks that many pharmacists have excelled in over the years and therefore likely to be replaced by computers.

Success in the pharmacy of the future is more likely for pharmacists who are good at jobs that can’t be carried out by following explicit rules — communications, pharmacoeconomics, personnel management, social marketing, and many other problem solving skills that students seem to resist.

If pharmacy students don't want to learn to work with ambiguity, there is another option suggested by Krugman. Most manual labor being done in the U.S. is hard to automate. Therefore, many jobs of the future will be truck driving, janitorial work, and other forms of physical labor.

Its the student's choice.

The future of health information

I edited and authored several chapters relating to health information technology in the textbook, "Introduction to Hospital and Health-System Pharmacy Practice." 1st ed. Bethesda, Maryland: American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists; 2010.

Sometimes it's hard to explain in text about the future of health information. Now, I have help with this great video from YouTube.