Drug shortages: Hang on! We’re in for a rough ride!
This year, we’ve seen some sporadic and odd shortages. For our Internal Medicine practice this year, the blood pressure drug Losartan figured prominently. Fortunately, there were easy alternatives.
Now, we hear of something more serious. We received an urgent notification from the hospital yesterday.
Contrast dye from GE, which is apparently 80% of the dye used in this country, is not coming in due to the shutdown in Shanghai. Initially, it seemed only CT contrast was the issue, but it now extends to MRI contrast. No one can say when this will get fixed. I presume other studies impacted will include Cardiac Catheterizations.
The shortage is not some date in the future, it is HERE AND NOW!
We order a lot of scans in a given day and almost all of them need contrast dye.
I’m tired of being the one to yell: “THIS IS A CATASTROPHE!” …But, I have to say, in all honesty, and calmness: “THIS IS A CATASTROPHE!”
REBUILD AMERICAN MANUFACTURING AT ALL LEVELS.. NO FREE SCHOOL.MOST PEOPLE DO NOT VALUE free at all.PAY OFF YOUR STUDENT.IT IS WHAT FUNCTIONAL ADULTS DO. HARD is better than easy. You will learn more and be MORE CONFIDENT IN THE FUTURE..
MANY manufacturing companies are leaving CHINA and MOVving to other asian nations,Mexico and the USA..
IT IS HAPPENING NOW.. Have Faith and look for investment/business opportunities. Carefully with due
diligence..
Time to make medical supplies in the United States.
Rather than throw money for nothing use it to build and make things
In the great depression they did not pay people not to work, they paid them to make bridges, art, roads and national parks.
Instead of forgiving student debt for people who chose to go to private schools and run up bills for dining out and trips to Europe how about we make nursing school FREE to get nurses instead of too many video game designers.