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there s a major drug shortage in hospitals around the country, affecting everything from painkillers to chemotherapy medications. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins me now. is this a fact? it is a fact. it s not talked about a lot and it s becoming a big problem. as many as four people died because of these drug shortages and take a look at how many drugs there are shortages. this list goes on and on. shortages of the drugs. my arm is tired here. there s the end. and what s happening is that the hospitals are not able to use the drugs they want to use so here s a list of bad things happening. for example, propofol, jackson juice, a patient woke up not giving him enough. they couldn t give the right dosage. part of the right dosage and the patient woke up. there s things that are worse. a patient was supposed to get morphine, got another drug that