Posted on 11/18/2011 5:19:09 PM PST by TennesseeGirl
Too many people in Tennessee are asking for antibiotics and too many doctors are prescribing them a practice that renders once-powerful drugs ineffective against infections, according to a recently released study...
...Unless we do something really radical and different, were going to lose these drugs, said Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, an epidemiologist and economist in Washington, D.C., who was a co-author of the study. Its not like were going to. We already have in many instances and things are just getting worse... (Excerpted) http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111118/NEWS07/311180046/Tenn-ranks-3rd-antibiotic-use
(Excerpt) Read more at etnweb.com ...
An ultimate goal? According to a 2006 statement by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, who is a corporate sponsor of CDDEP, "Under this grant, Laxminarayan and colleagues are examining how the drugs are used while evaluating policies to encourage more judicious use of antibiotics. This could include tying Medicare hospital reimbursements to upfront hospital infection-control efforts, charging patients a co-pay or higher co-pays to access antibiotics, and promoting long-term incentives so that pharmaceutical companies are more concerned about preventing resistance to existing antibiotics and more willing to develop new ones." See: http://www.rwjf.org/pioneer//product.jsp?id=20963 (from 2006). Today's press release was from Burness Communications (http://www.burnesscommunications.com/). Their motto is, "Advancing Social Change for Nonprofits Worldwide".
I hate being played.
Some screwballs have more compassion on a microbe than people.
Of course the policy of not being able to easilly without hassle go get what was once OTC sinus Meds without being put on a METH watch list has nothing whatsoever to do with the increase either. /sarcasm
Our local stations are the worst for picking stuff up off the wires and running with it without checking sources. I can only surmise the locals have an abundance of airtime to fill and will plug in almost anything without deligent research. I can’t even explain why The Tennessean ran it. I used to work for a nonprofit. We would send out press releases that would be regurgitated by the local media almost word for word. Nobody checked for accuracy or sources. They just ran with it.
Ping
Original article: http://www.wbir.com/rss/article/191725/2/Study-Tennesseans-in-danger-of-being-overprescribed-antibiotics
This Tennessee girl isn’t going to a doctor that is part of the problem. It’s like pulling teeth to get antiobiotics from him. Unless he can verify you have a bacterial infection, he won’t give them. Which is good. I don’t want to build up resistance to antibiotics.
Once it's there, possession is nine-tenths of the law.
FYI
Sponsoring FReepers are contributing
$10 Each time a New Monthly Donor signs up!
Get more bang for your FR buck!
Click Here To Sign Up Now!
Have you tried an allergy doctor? I lost my immunity again to mold about 6 years ago. I had too take shots as a kid. I’m taking shots for that now and a few pollens etc plus bee and wasp stings. It really makes a huge difference. I still use Claratin {generic OTC} and Singulair daily as well. But they aren’t on the watch list.
bump & a micro ping
You’re not being played. Overprescription of antibiotics for assorted symptoms that are probably not caused by bacteria, and subsequent development of bacterial resistance is a well recognized phenomena.
Developing new antibiotics isn’t cheap. Drug companies don’t like to do it because they usually are used by patients just for short periods.
Go to a local hospital’s microbiology lab. Ask to look at the culture and sensitivity reports. Patient names can be covered. You’ll be surprised at how many bacteria are resistant to various antibiotics.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.