Letter to the Editor. [In response to article of Nov. 2, "In Pharmaceutical
Pricing, Scarcity Overrules Regulation"]
Barron's, Nov. 16, 2015
"Hospital Drug Shortages: What is Really Causing Them?"
Medill News Service, May 26, 2016
"Elizabeth Warren Plan Would Allow the Government to Manufacture its Own Generic Drugs"
The Intercept, Dec. 18, 2018
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Statement of Mitchell Goldstein M. D. before the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing on GPOs, April 30, 2002
"Blog: Senator says GPOs may play role in high healthcare costs"
Modern Healthcare, Mar. 29, 2016
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Comments to Food and Drug Administration in response to request for comment on root causes of drug shortages, Jan.10, 2019
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Comments to Health & Human Services Inspector General in response to request for comment on proposal to rescind safe harbor for Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) rebates, April, 8, 2019
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PADS in the NEWS
Articles By Physicians Against Drug Shortages
Articles About Physicians Against Drug Shortages
"Anesthesiologists Voice Frustration Over Continued Drug Shortages"
Medscape, Oct. 17, 2012,
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"Schumer defends system that creates shortages of critical prescription drugs"
Buffalo News, Mar. 16, 2014
Letter to the Editor in response to Oct. 2013 article on drug shortages by McKeever et al
Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, Mar. 2014
"Pay-to-Play: The Impact of Group Purchasing Organizations on Drug Shortages"
American University Law School Business Law Review, Spring 2014
"NQF [National Quality Forum] CEO Outed as Member of Premier Inc. Board
HCRenewal. Feb. 21, 2014
"Physicians Against Drug Shortages Challenge the Controlled Drug Market for Hospitals"
PolicyMed, Sept. 11, 2013,
"Escalating Drug Prices: Not All Is What It Seems"
American Council on Science and Health, Oct. 4, 2016,
"Editorial: Greed, Legalized Corruption, and the Death Penalty"
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct. 13, 2013
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"Drug Shortages: Why They Happen and How They Can Be Solved?"
Life Science Leader, Dec. 2013
"Doctor Group Claims Drug Purchasing Organizations Causing Chronic Shortages"
Anesthesiology News, Apr. 3, 2013,
"Meningitis Outbreak: Lawmakers Question Drug Purchasing Groups"
Tennessean, Nov. 24, 2012
Letters to the Editor, "Drug Rebates Help Many, but Not Patients"
The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 24, 2018, [in response to oped of Sept. 16, 2018, "Drug Rebates Aren't 'Kickbacks'"]
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"Hospitals, foundations launch Civica RX, first nonprofit drug-making company"
Washington Times, Sept. 6, 2018
"Blumenthal Seeks Answers on whether health purchasing groups are costing consumers"
New Haven Register, Mar. 28, 2016
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"Expectation of drug shortages has become 'new norm' for cancer care"
HemOnc Today, Feb. 10, 2015
"Chemotherapy Drug Shortages in the United States Revisited"
Journal of Oncology Practice, Sept. 2014
'“Doctor, We Have No Saline Today”: The Curious Case of the Generic Injectable Drug Shortage'
Academic Emergency Medicine, July 5, 2014
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"Public Outcry Over U. S. Generic Drug Price Hikes"
Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Oct. 6, 2015
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"There's a National Shortage of Saline Solution. Yeah, We're Talking Salt Water. Huh?"
Fortune, Feb. 5, 2015
"Where Does the Law Against Kickbacks Not Apply? Your Hospital"
The Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2018
"Generic Drugs: Low Supply and High Prices"
Sentinel: Pennsylvania Society of Anesthesiologists Newsletter, Spring 2016
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"Identifying the Root Cause of Drug Shortages: A Call to Action"
Anesthesiology News, Oct. 25, 2018
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"Emergency Room Doctors, Paramedics Decry Shortage of Sugar, Salt Water"
NBC NEWS 4 NEW YORK, June 4, 2015
Presentation by PADS co-chair Margaret D. Clapp, former chief of pharmacy at Massachusetts General Hospital, to the Society of Critical Care Medicine annual Congress Jan. 20, 2015 on how GPOs caused the drug shortages
PADS Comments, Testimony and Other Documents
"Letter: Congress Should Repeal "Safe Harbor" Provision"
Bend Bulletin (Oregon), March 12, 2017
"Phillip Zweig on Legalized Kickbacks in Healthcare"
Corporate Crime Reporter, Apr. 23, 2018
"How to Stop Generic Drug Shortages: End Hospital Group Purchasing Kickbacks"
Fortune.com, Jan. 30, 2015
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"As they fight flu, hospitals cope with shortage of IV fluids"
Philadelphia Inquirer, February 14, 2018
"Forum: Blumenthal's Silence Deafening on Root Cause of Surging Generic Drug Prices"
New Haven Register, Jan. 11, 2016
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"Group Purchasing Organizations: Gaming the System"
Journal of the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, Summer 2018
"J&J's Solution to the Compassionate-Use Hot Potato"
Life Science Leader Magazine, May 18, 2015
Safe Harbor Cost Analysis, Jan. 20, 2019
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"President Trump Can End Shortages, Reduce Prices by Promoting Competition"
Investors Business Daily, Apr. 2, 2018
"Drug Costs, Drug Shortages, & Group Purchasing Organizations"
Sentinel [Pennsylvania Society of Anesthesiologists], Summer 2018