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This week is Antibiotic Awareness Week, a week focused on using antibiotics appropriately to provide the best clinical outcomes and avoid antibiotic resistance.
As physicians who care for patients with antibiotic resistant infections and those with antibiotic allergies, we know that there are real clinical advantages to being able to use “narrow” beta-lactam antibiotics such as amoxicillin. In fact, for many diagnoses, patients have better outcomes when they are treated with beta-lactam antibiotics that are targeted to their specific bacteria. …Read More
I am sure many colleague primary care providers are familiar with the soaring feeling of frustration when at the end of a visit, hand on the doorknob and ready to move on to the next patient, you are unexpectedly halted by your patient’s one last question. Often the one last question — aka the “doorknob” question — is in fact so important to your patient’s health and one you wish you’d been asked earlier in the encounter. 