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Re:Why There’s a Severe Shortage of Cancer Drugs by chromatin on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @09:15AM (#36505964)
At the hospital, the cost of cisplatin also includes the salary of the chemo pharmacist, the chemo nurse, and the medical oncologist (plus probably layers of unnecessary bureaucratic administrators)
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Re:Why There’s a Severe Shortage of Cancer Drugs by omniglottal on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @11:37AM (#36508047)
Notably, it's a multi-day fraction of those salaries, regardless of the multi-minute effort they put in to "analyze" a purely statistical inference which is applied to the individual patient.
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