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633 - The Far-Reaching Impacts of Drug Shortages Affecting Cancer Treatments
Season 8
Episode 633
Published 3 years, 3 months ago
Description
Shortages of lifesaving drugs—the result of failures at every step of complex supply chains—have far-reaching impacts on patients, providers, and the broader field of medicine. Hopkins oncologist Dr. Amanda Nickles Fader and policy researcher Dr. Mariana Socal talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the broader systems problem resulting in the shortages of a vast range of drugs and how it’s changing treatment protocols and the patient experience.