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The Case Against Non-technical Managers
Kelerei writes: Lorraine Steyn, owner of a small software development company in Cape Town, has published an opinion piece that may hit too close to home for some: making a case against non-technical managers. She writes about the all too common disconnect between IT staff and the boardroom table and states that 'one of the ways to solve this, is to bring managers closer to the coal face. Technical training programs are critical for your development team to keep apace with change, and investing the time for IT management to do the training too can pay dividends... [if a manager feels he doesn't] have enough time to get that close to the detail of what your department does, think about whether you would appoint a non-financial manager to handle your money'.
You're about half-right.
A noncertified tech does as you describe, but these people don't touch pills at all.
A certified technician has to pass an exam. You've got to know more than how to read labels, since they're the ones often filling prescriptions. It's important they know how drugs work, their mechanism for action, the routes of administration, not to mention the test requires you to memorize around 200 of the top drugs used (and all of their properties, naturally). Some pharmacy techs do not even work in a retail pharmacy and will be preparing IV and other kinds of medication in a more laboratory like setting in a hospital (or otherwise).
It's far from the unskilled labor you're making it out to be. A lot of people even go to school to become a pharmacy tech.