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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Without a positive test doctors are only allowed to give IV antibiotics for a short time, too short a time, because the government's trying to cut down on overuse of antibiotics.
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Which is a sure-fire way to breed antibiotic resistant bugs. The vulnerable bugs die, the semi-resistant bugs survive to make the next generation.
Over-prescribing is bad, but an incomplete course is at least as bad.
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Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008.
Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.
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