David Hyun, MD, senior officer, Antibiotic Resistance Project, The Pew Charitable Trusts and coauthor of study titled “Comparison of Antibiotic Prescribing in Retail Clinics, Urgent Care Centers, Emergency Departments, and Traditional Ambulatory Care Settings in the United States,” published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
One-third of antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary…and if you take too many now, they may not work when you really need them.