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"Bacterial superinfection in viral respiratory disease is a clinically well documented phenomenon." http://www.hksid.org/pdf/bult200305.pdf http://www.hksid.or
by shabda 12y ago
"Bacterial superinfection in viral respiratory disease is a clinically well documented phenomenon."
http://www.hksid.org/pdf/bult200305.pdf http://www.hksid.org/pdf/bult200305.pdf
"Respiratory viral infections may facilitate secondary bacterial infections"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15166819 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15166819
The doctor might have had some information about his patient, which you don't?
- vinceguidry 12y agoIf he did, surely he would have told them about it, rather than just say, "foreigners do it differently".
- shabda 12y agoThat's not always the case. If an amateur with no knowledge of my field questions 20 years of my professional experience, I am highly likely to say FU.
- kelukelugames 12y agoMy doctor friends get really annoyed when I read something on WebMD and argue with them. 8 years of schooling makes them an expert and I'm just being a jackass for thinking googling grants me an MD.
- logicchains 12y agoIf it were somewhere else I'd have considered that, but considering how widely recognised the problem of antibiotics overuse in China is I considered that more likely. "At medical institutions about 70 percent of hospitalized patients have antibiotics prescribed by doctors but nearly 80 percent of those prescriptions are unnecessary, Yang (director of the behavioral medicine branch of the Chinese Medical Association) noted."[1] "Each year on the mainland about 200,000 people die from adverse drug events and 40 percent of the deaths are related to the abuse of antibiotics, Yang told the Beijing-based Health News." 1. http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2011-01/05/content_11798779.htm http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2011-01/05/content_11798...