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Drug Shortages Have Reached a "Critical Level"

Summary: 
Watch as Bonnie Frawley -- a pharmacy manager -- describes why we can't wait to help our nation's hospitals and how the President Obama's executive order will bring attention to the issue and mean fewer drug shortages.

Bonnie Frawley is a pharmacy manager for Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, and drug shortages have become a too frequent fact of her work life.

She says the situation has reached a "critical level" and that it affects patient care, "sometimes on a daily basis."

Watch as she describes why we can't wait to help our nation's hospitals -- and how the President Obama's executive order will bring attention to the issue and mean fewer drug shortages.

Also, don't miss Jay Cuetara discuss how a drug shortage affected his cancer treatment and what the President's actions mean for patients.