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Introduction to Back up/Delayed Prescribing
Prof. Paul Little explains the context for the importance of antibiotics and how previous antibiotics may have medicalised the illness
Paul explains the context for the importance of antibiotics and how previous antibiotics may have medicalised the illness leading to patients believing that they NEED antibiotics to make them well.
In this video Paul shows a graph demonstrating the most common reasons why patients come into clinician surgery and explains why antibiotics would not be useful to them.
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