Then came the steam-powered pill press. Within a few decades, companies like Bayer and Pfizer could mass-produce standardised aspirin. But the transformation wasn’t the overnight extinction story we often imagine. Many apothecaries adapted successfully. Some became the pharmacists who interpreted physicians’ prescriptions and counselled patients on drug interactions — a consultative role that persists till […]
The apothecary’s ghost: Lessons from the last great automation of expertise, By Olumide Awoyemi
