Hospitals hunt substitutes as drug shortages rise - Yahoo! News: "A growing shortage of medications for a host of illnesses — from cancer to cystic fibrosis to cardiac arrest — has hospitals scrambling for substitutes to avoid patient harm, and sometimes even delaying treatment.
'It's just a matter of time now before we call for a drug that we need to save a patient's life and we find out there isn't any,' says Dr. Eric Lavonas of the American College of Emergency Physicians."
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