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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Clinicians prescribed antibiotics without an infection-related diagnosis nearly half of the time and one in five prescriptions were provided without an in-person visit, according to research being presented at IDWeek 2018. The study, which is the first to look at overall outpatient antibiotic prescribing, analyzed more than half a million prescriptions from 514 outpatient clinics.
Previous research has found antibiotics often are prescribed for certain symptoms (such as a sore throat or cough) when they shouldn't be.
Most of these types of illnesses are caused by viruses and therefore don't benefit from antibiotics, which only treat bacterial infections.
"We looked at all outpatient antibiotic prescribing and results suggest misuse of these drugs is a huge problem, no matter the symptom," said Jeffrey A. Linder, MD, MPH, lead author of the study and chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago. "We found that nearly half the time, clinicians have either a bad reason for prescribing antibiotics, or don't provide a reason at all. When you consider about 80 percent of antibiotics are prescribed on an outpatient basis, that's a concern."
[...] Of the 20 percent of antibiotics that were prescribed outside of an in-person visit, most were by phone (10 percent). Others were via an electronic health record system that allows prescription writing but there is no opportunity to gather information about symptoms or testing (4 percent), refill (4 percent) and online portal (1 percent). There are some cases where that may be appropriate, such as for women who suffer from recurrent urinary tract infections or teens taking antibiotics for acne. Researchers will analyze which of those prescriptions were appropriate in the next phase of research.
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(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 06 2018, @12:39PM
There was a technique called 'redirection.' This was where one would redirect their anger towards a person to an object, so as to avoid unnecessary conflict. The man, who had bipolar disorder, and whose therapist had told him about this technique, favored this approach. Especially now, after someone had just bumped into him, causing his fury to reach unsustainable levels.
He recalled his therapist's advice, and searched for an object. From there, it didn't take long for the man to find a suitable object; he began pummeling it with all his might until his wrath dispersed. Satisfied, the man continued walking to his destination without a care in the world. Or, at least, until someone bumped into him again.
"Ugh!" screeched the man. An object. He needed an object! When he found one, he immediately began to redirect all of the hatred and violence in his heart towards said object. Since his anger had reached extreme levels, it took quite a long time before his anger dissipated. By that point, the object had already been completely annihilated.
"There," said the man, deeming this level of destruction to be enough. Then, he continued on his way... until another mishap occurred. Then, another one. And another one. Yes, one after another, mishap after mishap occurred, forcing the man to constantly redirect.
Redirect. Redirect. Redirect. Redirect. Redirect. Redirect. Redirect. Redirect. Redirect. Redirect. Redirect. Redirect. Redirect. Redirect. Redirect!
Finally, it was over, and the man returned to a state of serenity. He looked back at the results of his redirection and smiled. Today, there had been twenty-five of them. Eighteen women and seven children had bore the brunt of the man's fury and lust, their battered and violated bodies randomly strewn around the area. He would have to thank his therapist again for teaching him about this wondrous technique.
Yes, for without redirection, for without this technique, a person may have been hurt...