Medication Vending Machines

Trips to the pharmacist could become a thing of the past, thanks to one U.S. company. InstyMeds has created medication vending machines that hold 100 common prescription drugs. Their goal is to place these machines in doctors' offices, clinics, and other healthcare facilities. Doctors will be able to transmit prescriptions electronically to the vending machines. To retrieve their meds, patients will enter a code and some personal information on a touch screen, and swipe a credit card or insert cash. The machine also sends the appropriate information to the patient's insurance company. InstyMeds says several safeguards are in place to prevent the wrong medication from being dispensed.

(Source: Springwise)

Word to the Wise: Eldritch

"Eldritch" (EL-drich) means strange or unearthly. The word is believed to be derived from a Middle English word meaning "fairyland."

Example (as used by Thom Stark in an issue of Boardwatch): "In the eldritch light of evening in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, the eye plays tricks on the brain."

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