Originally Posted by guthmund

Ideally, it would be nice to have pharmacists. It would be nice to get the prescription under another set of eyes and such. It's a nice buffer zone for the patient to have two educated minds looking over their prescriptions to make sure drug A and drug B play nice together.

However, if the pharmacist isn't going to fulfill their part of the doctor/pharmacist/patient triad then maybe we should get rid of the pharmacist.
If my mechanic won't work on my car because he thinks I should be observing the Sabbath, I find another mechanic, right? It seems like kind of the same thing to me.

Like the majority have posted, there would have to be some sort of oversight to make sure the power isn't used and abused, but it's certainly possible to do.