When making an important decision about your profession, your career or your business, the best thing you can do is to step back and give yourself the benefit of a new perspective.
As automation takes on technical precision, the pharmacist’s value must shift toward relational precision: the ability to build meaningful relationships, guide behaviour change and support patients through ongoing health coaching.
A significant shift in wearable devices is indeed underway, and when these tools become integrated into routine care, community pharmacy will once again be profoundly affected.
Pharmacists have important insights. They understand which are the important problems to solve in the healthcare space, making them the ideal people to develop solutions to those problems.
Just as we count inventory—regularly checking what is on the shelf, what is running low, and what needs to be reordered—we must do the same for our profession.
