Owen's Letters to The (Healthcare) Hackers

Colleagues were discussing the relationship between pharmacists and medical doctors.

Colleagues were discussing the relationship between pharmacists and medical doctors. Here is a thing I had to say…with slight edits for completeness and grammar. I didn't go to town on sentence structure like I would more regularly do for the purpose of readability, because I want the audience reading this to have a sense of the reading level of the audience as part of the exercise. I usually write shorter sentences for general audiences and longer sentences are lazy, but an indication of the expected reading level of a specific audience. Now, onward…

As a strong agree with a great and nuanced perspective, I want to highlight that the interactions between expert pharmacists and expert clinicians and physicians works well when those experts are able to actively and in real time— or some very interactive asynchronous back-and-forth— be allowed to do so.  The ability to leverage the expertise of pharmacists is not gained by their replacement of physicians in the care of patients, but …