Posts Tagged ‘overuse of antibiotics’

Antibiotics (ABs) work against bacteria, not viruses. Yet out of ignorance, patients press doctors to prescribe ABs for viruses. Doctors do it to please ill-informed patients. Regrettably, this results in drug resistant bacteria; a terrifying public health hazard. The dilemma is that the gains from overuse of ABs are private (happy patients) whereas the costs…