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In late December, Dr. Clifford Moy, clinical director of the Austin (Tex.) State Hospital, did something he almost never has to do: In consultation with attending physicians, he switched 17 patients from one drug--the antipsychotic quetiapine fumarate (Seroquel, AstraZeneca)--to other medications.
Supply problems forced him to make the switch. At one point, the hospital system's drug distributor ran completely out of it. "We don't want to use it if we don't have a reliable supply," he said.
Across the country in Tewksbury, Mass., Tom...
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