We all prescribe antibiotics frequently. While the debate about who is contributing more to the terrifying antibiotic resistance patterns and the emergence of superbugs rages on, we can sometimes forget or minimize the fact that antibiotics have immediate side effects for our patients. Serious and seriously unpleasant side effects. A publication in JAMA from […]
Do antivirals or steroids help make shingles better?
Posted onA patient comes to the emergency department reporting a few days of excruciating pain in a band around his right chest. Today, he developed vesicles over the same area which prompted him to come in. Classic shingles. Like most patients diagnosed with this disease, he is sent home with wound care, return precautions, contact precautions, […]