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Doctors know that inappropriate prescribing can lead to antibiotic resistance. So why do they keep doing it?
When one in six hospitalisations of older patients are due to harm from their medicines, then something is going seriously wrong.
When retail health clinics move into new areas, antibiotic prescription rates go up.
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