Too many antibiotics are creating health disaster, doctors t

[wendy]

Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies warns family doctors who over prescribe antibiotics are contributing to a "public health catastrophe"

Family doctors who dole out too many antibiotics have been personally warned by the Chief Medical Officer that they are contributing to a "public health catastrophe".

Dame Sally Davies has written to 1,500 practises which were giving out significantly higher levels of antibiotic prescriptions to their patients than GPs in their area.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/ ... -told.html

[annie]

Not surprising, they have been overprescribed for years

[maureenho]

Over the years it's been far to easy for Dr's to prescribe anti-b's and now counting the cost of it.

[wendy]

this is how I ended up in hospital, I feel sure.

[Rosalind]

Been going on for years, about time something was done about it.