Liverpool Daily Post: Long Battle to Fight Hospital Infections
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THE knee-jerk reaction of many doctors over the last half- century faced with a patient showing all the signs of a bacterial infection has been to prescribe a broad-spectrum antibiotic.
And for a very good reason too: it has usually worked. It might be the medical equivalent of using a sawn-off shotgun rather than a sniper rifle, but there are few grounds for complaint when a desperately-ill patient makes a rapid and complete recoverySee the full content of this document
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Liverpool Daily Post: Long Battle to Fight Hospital Infections
Now, however, the guidelines to doctors are being changed to en...
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