While waiting for the doc in a clinic examination room I stare idly at the glossy poster directly across from my perch on the examination table. It's got something to do with antibiotics and resistance. The punch line in big letters exclaims: " Inappropriate use of antibiotics can lead to resistance".
And it occurs to me that while that caption may be true, it is quite misleading. And that's sad.
And the health professionals who place those kind of misleading statements ought to be taken to task. Of course the publishers of the poster, in this case Abbott Laboratories - a mammoth pharmaceutical corporation, also ought to be called on their misleading promotion.
The fact is that Every use of antibiotics Will lead to resistance. It's not just inappropriate uses, but virtually every use of antibiotics has this tendency. And it is not a maybe proposition (can lead); it is a mandatory proposition (will lead).
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