633 - The Far-Reaching Impacts of Drug Shortages Affecting Cancer Treatments
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
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| 0:32.3 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:34.7 | Today, drug shortages affecting cancer treatment. Dr. Amanda Nichols-Fader, an oncologist |
| 0:40.9 | at Johns Hopkins, speaks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about her scramble to find the medicines her patients need. |
| 0:47.7 | They're joined by Dr. Mariana SoCal of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She's been |
| 0:53.3 | studying what's behind these shortages. |
| 0:56.0 | Let's listen. |
| 0:57.7 | Dr. Pader, Dr. Sokol, thank you so much for joining me to talk about drug shortages |
| 1:02.7 | and urgent national problem. |
| 1:05.7 | Let's start with you, Dr. Pater. |
| 1:07.4 | Tell us where you work in clinic. |
| 1:10.0 | Thank you so much for having me, Josh. So I am a G. Y. |
| 1:13.0 | an oncologist at Johns Hopkins, and my specialty is to treat women with gynecologic or reproductive |
| 1:20.8 | cancer. So cancers of the uterus, ovary, cervix, and vulva. Those are some pretty serious |
| 1:27.4 | medical conditions. Yes, indeed. It's a huge |
| 1:30.7 | passion of mine. Women's cancers are underfunded and many of them present with advanced stage |
| 1:36.6 | disease. So a really big clinical unmet need to improve outcomes for women with cancer. |
| 1:41.9 | So I imagine you'd like to spend your time really working to find new |
| 1:46.3 | treatments, new cures for your patients, but you've been spending a lot of time on this issue of |
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