Drug Prices on the Rise: What Can Physicians Do?
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…