My morning ritual of reading articles over coffee has transformed somewhat, such that there is a lot more playing with an infant, and a lot less evidence based medicine. Although the coffee isn’t going anywhere, it is usually cold by the time I have a free moment to get to […]
delayed antibiotics
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Doctors prescribe a lot of antibiotics for viral illness. We shouldn’t do that. Antibiotics don’t work for viral illnesses, but for some reason many doctors can’t seem to help themselves. Because of all this inappropriate prescribing, someone came up with the (not so) brilliant idea of delayed antibiotic prescriptions, in […]
October 2020. A month that many have declared the worst of all time, but can it really be that bad if you are getting another edition of the research roundup, with all sorts of EBM goodness?
Either a patient needs antibiotics or they don’t. If a patient needs antibiotics, a delayed prescription is harmful. If a patient doesn’t need antibiotics, a delayed prescription is harmful. Thus, delayed antibiotics are dumb.