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On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 18:56:15 +0000, Toby Lipman 7, Collingwood
Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne. Tel 0191-2811060 (home),
0191-2869178 (surgery) wrote:
>Last weekend I got a chance to read the Sunday papers, and noticed
a
>scary article about how our irresponsible and excessive prescribing
of
>antibiotics had lead to the evolution of bugs which actually feed
on
>antibiotics. Soon we won't be able to treat anything as all bugs
will be
>resistant. There was a number of sad stories about patients
developing
>resistant infections which overwhelmed them and didn't respond to
any of
>the available antibiotics. It suggested a nihilistic approach to
>treating bacterial infection such as otitis media.
Snip
>I couldn't help recalling that a few months ago there were some
other
>scare stories in the press about pneumonia in children, some of
whiom
>had died. This was blamed on GPs' unwillingness to prescribe
>antibiotics, and the approach of British GPs was compared
unfavourably
>to that of primary care physicians abroad who apparently use lots
more
>antibiotics than we do.
>
>Do you ever feel that whatever you do you can't win?
And then there was the one about how we're causing meningitis by
usung too many antibiotics.
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