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Sheldon Whitehouse: “The gray market could include something as benign as Women and Infants Hospital calling around to other hospitals and…”

On the recordDecember 14, 2011
The gray market could include something as benign as Women and Infants Hospital calling around to other hospitals and saying we're short on this drug, do you have any to spare and would you sell it to us, which I think everybody in this room would think is a pretty benign form of trying to resolve the drug shortage issue.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse discusses the gray market's benign and problematic aspects in drug shortages.

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