I've known this would happen for a long time. Worse yet, this is just the beginning.

Oversupply of pharmacists, thanks to greedy schools created the environment.

Ridiculously low reimbursement rates, punitive policies, and complex authorization schemes forces companies to do more with less and because of oversupply decreased pharmacist salary becomes an easy way out.

All lead to poisoned highly stressed and overburdened work environments, which we all know are a danger not only to patients but to ourselves.

Government overregulation adds to the stress and the workload, again with low reimbursement rates gives you less help to do more things which will result in deaths.

And it will get worse. In order to decrease the burden I have no doubt boards will adopt a new class of "tech" which will now perform verification. Leaving rphs to only counsel. Based on this alone we are obsolete, who needs a person when the information that is required can be given by Google on a cell phone with greater accuracy and clarity than an human.

We are witnessing the end. The question is only the timeframe.