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Margaret McCartney: Blaming doctors won’t reduce antibiotic overuse

BMJ⁠ 2015⁠; 351⁠ doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h4697 (Published 01 September 2015)⁠

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Re: Margaret McCartney: Blaming doctors won’t reduce antibiotic overuse

Beware of Excessive Antibiotic Usage

Self medications and treatment with quacks are the two important reasons in poor and developing countries for the excessive use of antibiotics.

This is more dangerous in neonates, infants, children and elders. This attitude is also very dangerous in patients with many co-morbid conditions.

So doctors should be very cautious in choosing the antibiotics and the duration of antibiotic therapy.

Doctors should also follow the standard guidelines to use antibiotics for prophylaxis or treatment to prevent inappropriate and excessive usage of antibiotics.

Competing interests: No competing interests

04 September 2015

M A Aleem

Neurologist

ABC Hospital

Annamalainagar Trichy 620018 Tamilnadu India