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It only "makes sense" if you don't understand why you should finish your anti-biotics. And don't know or understand the alternative outcomes outside the reasoni
by Brockenstein 8y ago
It only "makes sense" if you don't understand why you should finish your anti-biotics. And don't know or understand the alternative outcomes outside the reasoning you've proposed.
IE you feel better, aren't better, and risk re-infection.
It's probably much more effective overall to take the guesswork out and follow a consistent routine for each patient. If you give the patient the option to wing it, and they do and that doesn't work, they're not going to take responsibility for it. They'll blame everyone but themselves for a bad outcome.
- Zeppelin15 8y agoOF coarse doctors are always going to err on the side of caution, part of the reason for the super bugs in the first place have been given as the over prescription of antibiotics. Not just over prescription in that antibiotics are not needed also the over prescription of duration. I think the whole feel better approach will help antibiotics resistance not necessarily the patient. Will be interesting to see the risk of "reinfection vs risk of over prescription" graph. Horizontal gene transfer thing is what I found really interesting Found the journal entry if anyone cares : https://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3418 https://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3418 Article about journal entry : https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/27/health/antibiotics-course-advice-study/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/27/health/antibiotics-course...