Way too many doctors are prescribing antibiotics in error, study says

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - 16:01 in Health & Medicine

About 7 in 10 patients who go to a doctor seeking treatment for acute bronchitis winds up leaving their appointment with a prescription for an antibiotic, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. That’s a problem, the study authors say, because the ideal...

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