28 February 2017 - In January, amid widespread national concern over soaring prescription drug prices, Donald J. Trump, then the president-elect, told reporters that the industry was “getting away with murder.”

Indeed, some doctors — frustrated by what they see as unreasonable price tags and political stagnation — are coming up with their own do-it-yourself solutions. Their efforts to bring down costs for their patients highlight the arbitrary and often needlessly exorbitant prices of drugs in the United States, they say.

One striking example is the response of Dr. Cathleen London, a family doctor in Milbridge, Maine, to news that the pharmaceutical company Mylan had driven up the prices of its signature EpiPen, a branded auto-injecting device containing a preset dose of epinephrine, a lifesaving drug, to be used by people at risk of experiencing anaphylactic shock triggered by an allergy. “I thought: This is disgusting. ThKaiser Health Newsere’s got to be another auto-injector,” she said. “I started Googling.”

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