Hands-on patient training on inhalers and glucose meters is not feasible with remote dispensing, and administration of injections is impossible without a physically present pharmacist.
Finally, the resistance is specific to the particular venom used; maintaining resistance to a variety of venoms requires multiple monthly venom injections.
But even this charismatic president, who is a widowed single father, has three major fears getting injections, questions from his five-year-old son, and candlelight rallies.
Anaesthetists prefer to use intravenous injections, as they are faster, generally less painful and more reliable than intramuscular or subcutaneous injections.
Concerns mounted that the cocktail of injections were a factor in years of physical and mental agony soldiers were said to be suffering through Gulf War Syndrome.