Episode
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Compounding Pharmacies
Overview
Compounding pharmacies create medication tailored to the specific needs of individual patients. John Oliver explains why this small corner of the drug market can cause big problems.
Details
- Series
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 24
- Air date
- 2019-09-29
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Compounding Pharmacies is Episode 24 in Season 6 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. It aired on 2019-09-29. The runtime is 30 min.
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