Antibiotics overprescribed by GPs

GPs are unnecessarily giving patients antibiotics for respiratory tract infections which would clear up on their own. Doctors tend to overemphasise symptoms such as white spots in the throat, rather than looking at factors such as old age and comorbidity, which would affect a patient's recovery, according to an article published in the online open access journal, BMC Family Practice.

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