https://nitter.net/thetimes/status/1581231199380336641?t=Tne0o-J7n0IQA8RewBU8qA&s=19
I mean it says right there that they still need a prescription, they’re just empowering pharmacists to do it. Pharmacists have degrees in their specialty and often advise doctors on different drugs and whatnot. People can’t just go in and get them off the shelf.
Also it’s not like the GPs have been doing particularly well when it comes to overprescribing these things.
Oh, that's not a big deal. At least in the US, pharmacists are doctors and their job is to know how drugs work and what they do. Prescribing first-line antibiotics to treat simple infections should be well within their wheelhouse. The biggest problems I see is adding more workload to people who, in the US at least, are already drowning due to callous understaffing.
I have actually seen this several times in pharmacies when I've visited the US.
On the one hand, medical gatekeepers sucks when they’re like the dumb-ass, racist nurse who didn’t believe I had pneumonia
For what it's worth, without the lab testing you wouldn't know whether it was bacterial/viral/fungal/mycoplasma pneumonia or something with secondary pneumonia. Take the wrong antibiotic and it does nothing while your condition worsens. Take them for viral pneumonia and they do nothing while the condition resolves on its own. Medical gatekeeping is there for a reason.
Freedom baby aosnfioaenrfuiarfioasodfoiajsdiofjsiodfnanfornareaooin fucking dies
Oh joy, I'm looking forward to the inevitable next plague that people will deny exists as they're choking to death on their own lung fluids or whatever next horror awaits
they'd have to compete with japanaboos making that for um...
anime reasons :desolate:
Oh no, I sneezed. I better buy some anti-biotics and only take 1.
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Isn't this the case in many countries already?
Also, while this isn't a good idea, it's better than forcing people to buy fish amoxicillin because they can't afford to see a doctor.
it’s better than forcing people to buy fish amoxicillin because they can’t afford to see a doctor.
This is in the UK, i thought it was not prohibitively expensive to see a GP there.
many a times people will end up taking antibiotics for flu or cold.
I know it's not the entire reason to be mad and terrified at this but on the topic of over prescribing antibiotics: antibiotic over use leading to ever more resistant super bugs comes way more often from industrial animal agriculture than from human use. For every unscrupulous doctor irresponsibly over prescribing for human use there is an entire farm's worth of animals being routinely fed antibiotics as a prophylactic against the terrible and unhealthy conditions they are subject to.
Again I know there is way more to this specific issue at play, but every time someone mentions irresponsible use of antibiotics I can't stop myself from telling everyone who will listen about the man made horrors beyond our comprehension
It's time to make the Zpac obsolete, it's got the Russian letter
They should just do what they did back in the early 20th century and just make it so that Doctor doesn't have a legal or verifiable definition
That way you could call yourself a doctor while traveling the world giving men and women alike more vim and vigor with your patented Curative Galvanic Belt
like, doctors doctors, or something else
because I myself like doctors
Teacher's pet behaviour. Some fuck tells you to say ahh and I bet you do it too
The American Medical Association is an oppressive and unnecessary bureaucracy
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oh yeah let's do this for antibiotics which people ask for excessively and can be a harm to more than just individuals
and not fucking anything else (where's my non prescription amphetamine you losers)
Non prescription amphetamine is almost as stupid (also not quite).
no i need it
love to jump through hoops while having the disorder that makes you bad at jumping through hoops to get the medication to fix it
