“People use antibiotics too often,” she said. “I try to make a point of using them sparingly in my clinic.”
Yes, but now is not the time to worry about that.
Seriously? “I think situations like this are the exact right time to use antibiotics. These people have open wounds, they’re undernourished, dehydrated, stressed, their immune systems are probably shot, their environments are filthy, there’s probably countless other reasons.”
Exactly – people do use antibiotics too much, but that’s because using them too much for lesser things eventually makes them useless, preventing their use for more major injuries as the bacteria evolve to develop immunity. This is absolutely the sort of scenario where it’s justified.
She said something, sounding even more irritated than before. I think it was a repeat of the question from earlier, about my credentials in medicine. I wasn’t listening.
Yeeah, time to tune her out.
The paramedics hadn’t come out of the ambulance in several minutes. A check with my bugs found them lying on the floor of the ambulance. No blood, as far as I could tell.
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Well, this doesn’t sound like a positive development.
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