What You Need to Know About Antibiotics
Show: Stoughton Health Talk
According to the American Academy of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, doctors should not prescribe antibiotics for coughs and sore throats and most colds, because they don't help and their overuse is making them less effective against other infections.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that up to half of the 133 million doses of antibiotics administered daily outside hospitals may be unnecessary because they are being prescribed for viral infections that don't respond to antibiotics.
Listen in as Andrew Dean, MD, an emergency medicine physician, explains what questions to ask your doctor if you think you may need an antibiotic.
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