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If 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
by logicchains 12y ago
If 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...