Drugs are expensive in the United States. I am writing, of course, about pharmaceutical agents. In 2006, the US spent $900 per capita on pharmaceuticals — a higher per capita amount than anywhere else in the world, and almost double what Australia spends.
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- (The author has just returned from sabbatical leave at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.)
Correspondence: j.zajac@unimelb.edu.au
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