Drug Prices on the Rise: What Can Physicians Do?

F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE
4 min readMar 4, 2020

Inflation-adjusted drug prices are up 60% in 10-years, amidst continued pharma profitability.

When I was a resident rotating in the ICU, a 25-year-old came in after a v-fib arrest in the setting of DKA. A known diabetic, he had been rationing his insulin due to the high price of the medication — taking half doses…

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F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE

Medicine, science, statistics. Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale. New book “How Medicine Works and When it Doesn’t” available now.