I have prescribed antibiotics only once today :-)
Mind you, my explanations started with 3+ minutes of bacteria/viruses/%
likelihoods/resistance/side-effects/worldwide problem etc.
By the end of the day it had degenerated to *the government say so*.
One patient definitely went out via reception where she booked an
appointment with one of my partners (she'll be lucky, she's picked the
hardest nut to crack!)
I did 2 scripts of paracetamol as the parents seemed particularly
unconvinced by my argument - perhaps I just hadn't got it off pat by
then :-(
Now don't get the wrong idea, I am not, I don't think, a high antibiotic
prescriber (off to check the PACT data in a minute), it was just I made
a conscious effort not to today.
Now I seem to have this terrible toothache, don't want to disturb the
poor dentist, so where are those penicillin tabs?? ;-)
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Katie
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