Flora Lichtman
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5,440 appearances
87 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Flora Lichtman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mike Gordon is the bassist for Phish and Dr. Greg Applebaum is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, San Diego.
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Thank you both so much for coming to talk to us today.
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And if you want to experience Flow State in person, just saying, fish are going back on tour starting today, July 7th.
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This episode was produced by D. Peter Schmidt.
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I'm Flora Lichtman.
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Thank you for listening.
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Hey, it's Flora Lichtman, and you're listening to Science Friday.
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Americans pay roughly three times as much for prescription meds compared to other wealthy and developed nations.
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It's an issue that cuts across party lines.
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Both the Biden and Trump administrations rolled out their own proposals to address this.
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But the problem persists.
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So why are our drugs so expensive?
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My next guest argues it's largely to do with how our patent systems work.
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if that sounds wonky hang with us it's actually really interesting and tahir amin will tell you why he has a really unique perspective because he's been on both sides of this issue he's spent a decade as an intellectual property lawyer helping corporations use patents to protect their bottom lines then he moved to india and saw firsthand how the global patent system hampered access to hiv drugs
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And so he started an advocacy organization to make access to medicines more equitable.
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He lays it all out in a new book called Pharma Monopoly, The Battle for the Future of Medicines.
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Tahir, welcome to Science Friday.
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Let's just step back for a second.
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So we have this patent system.
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What was the original intent of it?
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