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beamjockey ([personal profile] beamjockey) wrote2011-01-04 11:26 pm
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The Clockwork Druggist

Last night I accompanied someone to a local clinic, an outpost of Central Dupage Hospital, and found a new piece of technology in the waiting room.


It's a vending machine that dispenses prescription drugs. Welcome to the future.

Someone tell [livejournal.com profile] autopope about this: yet another sign that getting out of the pharmacy business was a good career move. Had he continued, [livejournal.com profile] autopope might have been out on the street by now, to be replaced by [livejournal.com profile] autochemist...

Perhaps the corner druggist will go the way of the soda jerk he once employed* --I hope not. I like my local pharmacist, and as I gradually mature into the decades when I become ever more lucrative to him, I find it comforting to be able to consult a human regarding the growing number of pills I must consume.



* Of whom, I hope to write more soon.

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