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Originally Posted by Altavia
The over prescription of antibiotics paradox is as much cultural as medical.
Many hospitals and medical associations have helped educate and apply new Antibiotic Stewardship guidelines to diagnose and treat infections. These guidelines have been made to ensure effective treatments are given for bacterial infections and to reduce incorrect use of antibiotics
Antibiotics: Are you misusing them? - Mayo Clinic
Patients play a part so need to avoid pressuring their health care provider to give an antibiotic prescription. They instead should ask their health care provider for advice on how to treat symptoms. |
Agreed. Patients should stop pressuring.
Are you asserting based on that article, that doctors prescribing antibiotics when not needed is no longer a problem?
if so, my point is moot.