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#389 Recap: SHM 2023 #Converge

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Should We Stop Antibiotics?

I think one of the things that I took away from this talk today was that I really need to stop using ProCal's. They're not really helpful. And they may even be hurting patients if we're using them inappropriately to take off antibiotics or such. The only, there's maybe some discussion that in a very prolonged antibiotic course, like multiple weeks, maybe there's some use for it. So it doesn't sound like, at least in terms of COPD or pneumonia with relatively shorter antibiotic courses, they're just not helpful.

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