Prescription drug shortages plague US – (01-22-01)



Prescription drug shortages plague US

This is supposed to be a bad thing, a “plague?” In many cases I would consider this a blessing. A ridiculous example given involves oxytocin, a drug used to induce labor. Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston uses this in “almost every one of its 10,000 annual deliveries.” (What ever happened to nature???) The truly ironic quote by Dr David Acker, the hospital’s chief of obstetrics, was that, when doctors had to cut back on their use of the drug, “Fortunately no patient suffered.” Okay, okay. So WHY do we use it at all?? No patient suffered because they did not have a drug to try to best nature? Forward this one to any midwives you know and they’ll pass out laughing….

bmj.com Charatan 322 (7279): 130a

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