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Is a new study out university you -- -- every year.
Doctors are riding over ten million unnecessary.
Prescriptions for children.
And managing editor for Fox News health dot com knocked me out -- Joins us with the overdosing on antibiotics.
Dr.
-- been there -- -- -- like.
The cost.
You build up a resistance to -- why are they so reckless these doctors well.
Hey hey hey hey you know hey.
PDL.
Paris doctors or lawyers is that BVL combination basically that has created this epidemic.
And gave you look at the -- -- out of the University of Michigan.
The Utah mom and basically shows that ten million prescriptions a year.
Are given to children -- the age of eighteen for antibiotics many times this is.
These are medications that are not necessary because of for viruses and we all know that.
That you know only bacteria gets -- -- -- antibiotics and when when you prescribed broad spectrum -- biology basically killing off a lot of the good bacteria that you need for your immune system so.
Unnecessary prescriptions.
Lots of overuse probably putting kids in danger.
But it is a combined pressure because.
Every time you take -- kids to the doctor if you look at the number of visits every.
-- -- -- -- -- you you know that the parents and you know one and you give some antibiotics the doctor that is afraid because if something happens especially the pneumonia and he misses -- ammonium she misses an ammonia.
Then the kid can end up in the hospital the lawyers are standing by waiting to charge you with crime.
And it's not only the doctors.
Nuts about why that's really interesting because I've been like.
While mr.
yeah really -- don't hit him like he did earlier bonds.
The did -- not been with my kids of the doctor couple times and thought about this where you're thinking well they're not feeling well.
And there is this temptation to say to the doctor could you know you have to go to work the next day -- everybody -- to students met about it and let's clear this up what do you what do you sit apparent.
So -- listen you know one of the comments in the story that which I always found fascinating is that.
You know tried to get the parents more involved in asking questions when a doctor or nurse practitioner gives you can -- you know medication US you know why is this for we know -- to be indication.
That's a good that's a good dialogue to have that at the end of the days.
Don't ask that about themselves either they do the same thing together doctors -- Plotkin and well you know look at their -- the -- everybody was as Deepak.
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Which is transparent that it affiliate you know I got leverage -- -- -- like many other -- and easy back.
And and the that's not good Madison and you have to realize that a lot of these.
You know illnesses are viruses and they take their course and you will be perfectly fine you just have to wait that was not just the doctors fall thank you doctor -- got it while our accelerating -- In the markets are down.
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