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The writer is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor of Biomedical Engineering, International Health and Medicine at Boston University. He tweets @mhzaman
I have done an experiment multiple times - each time with essentially the same result. It goes something like this: I go to a pharmacy somewhere near a major public hospital (think PIMS in Islamabad, JPMC in Karachi, etc), and ask them about some drug that is commonly prescribed (could be an antibiotic, or something else for another ailment). The answer is always the same. The pharmacy worker offers a few options, with varying prices.
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