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shigawirelast Friday at 1:11 AM1 replyview on HN

Is that true or just a rumor? All the family medicine people I know would not do that. Only in a case where it is 50/50 bacterial or viral like an ear infection in a young kid.


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kube-systemlast Friday at 1:35 AM

There is more effort today to avoid overprescribing antibiotics, but in cases where diagnosis is not certain, most providers will oblige