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Routine Checkup: Drug Price Transparency with Dr. Iris Gorfinkel

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

For a lot of folks, drug costs can be the deciding factor for whether or not someone will end up taking their prescribed medicine. So one would think that doctors have a grasp on the different price points for certain drugs, right? Not so much. We are joined by our new favourite repeat guest Dr. Iris Gorfinkel to break down the importance of drug price transparency between doctors and patients. Why is the system failing us? What can be done to fix it? Seems like a daunting task, but if anyone is going to make waves, it's Dr. Gorfinkel!

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And we're sitting up here. We go to make your heads get on your Well, We're gonna please get all in our hands

0:40.3

Yeah Well, I know one thing's

0:58.9

for sure. We are not going to be talking about non-fungible tokens.

1:03.5

We are instead going to be talking about drug cost transparency, which I mean, you know what?

1:13.3

I honestly don't even know where to start, uh, but I will start here.

1:16.6

Dr. Iris Gorkenkel, we're, we're back.

1:19.9

We're back with, uh, our second time with our friend, Dr. Gorkenkel.

1:24.3

I'm very excited about this. Um, uh, I guess, I this. I guess where to start is why is this

1:33.1

discussion of drug cost transparency important? Or what would you say to folks who might not

1:40.1

necessarily think about that? Why should they think about this issue and why it's important?

1:46.5

People are actually shocked to learn. The doctors don't know how much the very prescriptions

1:53.3

they're writing will cost the patient. Right. And even my patients who are nurses are surprised

1:59.7

to learn that I don't know what the drug will cost.

2:03.3

So where do they learn?

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