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Re:Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibioti... by jabagonuts on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @12:15PM (#6599641)
I feel a lot less silly now for avoiding medical treatment unless absolutely necessary all my life.
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Re:Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibioti... by saalweachter on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @12:39PM (#6599818)
The difficulty is avoiding treatment and not diagnostics. If your method of avoiding treatment is never going to the doctor, ie, never being diagnosed, you don't really know when your problems are life-threatening.
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Re:Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibioti... by Fomite on Thursday October 24, 2013 @08:30AM (#6604826)
So this would be a bad time to start talking about rates of community acquisition of MRSA and C. difficile, wouldn't it?
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