Dr. Heather Allen is a retired oncologist who worked for Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada. She has lived in Las Vegas since 1981 and has been practicing medicine for over 40 years.
During my forty plus years of practicing medicine, I have seen a lot of changes and many improvements, but one of the latest changes baffles me. The Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) provisions regarding price controls on certain advanced medicines for Medicare patients, particularly the discrepancy in exemption periods between small-molecule...