What Can Patients Do?
Realize that not all bugs need drugs. Antibiotics don’t work on viruses such as the flu, colds or most sinus infections, coughs and bronchitis. Many doctors will recommend getting extra rest and letting the illness run its course.
What Can Physicians Do?
Rethink the notion that antibiotics are always the “better safe than sorry” option. “That approach is deeply embedded in the psyche of physicians,” McGeer says.
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One Response to “ What Can Patients and Physicians Do? ”
I am the photographer for the image you used on this article and I would greatly appreciate it if you could credit me somewhere on the page. Here is a link to the original image:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/angela_sleeping/6833986386/
Thanks!
-Angela Doss
Hi Angela, we credit all images in the image file; if you hover your mouse over the pic you will see the credit to Angela Doss/Flickr. All best, Janet Rowe, U of T Magazine