Gut Health and why we need to throw out the rule-book with Professor Tim Spector #1
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
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Is There a No Blame Culture in Antibiotics?
I think our whole attitude towards antibiotics has to shift a little bit. We thought we were doing our patients a service by just in case you get an infection, we'll give you this antibiotic. And I think we need to really recognize the real downsides that exist there and work out what actually maybe in some of those instances we should wait and see evidence rather than prophylactically giving them. If there was a no blame culture, it would be easy to do that. But doctors don't get rewarded for things not happening. The more we learn, the more we know we know very little.
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