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If anything has become depersonalized these days, it’s the pharmacy experience. You can fill your prescriptions online, or on your phone; a trip to the pharmacist’s counter is automatically accompanied by the inherent dread of standing in line, the glare of harsh drugstore lighting; the rows upon rows of products that have little or nothing to do with you, or your health. The pharmacists working behind the counter fill prescriptions in a perfunctory, hurried manner — they....