COLUMBIA — It’s a dilemma no physician should ever have to face: Mosharraf Hossain had two cancer patients scheduled to come in on the same day to receive the same drug treatment. But he only had enough medicine for one person.
National drug shortage hits Columbia hospitals, stalls patient treatments
Pharmacist: 'This is the greatest severity of drug shortages in existence that I’ve known'
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 | 2:26 p.m. CDT;
updated 12:02 p.m. CST, Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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