Hmm. Mixed messages on the news today. Patients are thick, 25% admit to not knowing what a virus is, and they inappropriately demand antibiotics. So far, so good, but it appears we give them out on demand....Don't think so. We give them out to get the steaming whining mess that has come back for the last three days on the trot, off our seat, having told them 3 times already that the Erythromycin they're going to be given (Chosen for maximum side effects) is not going to make ablind bit of difference, no matter how green their, or little Jimmy's, snot is.
There is an easy solution, the Govt could do a proper advertising campaign, you know, the sort of approach that Ricky Gervais employs when he wants to get something, (like his new series), noticed. Good old fashioned insults.
How about bloody great posters on buses, saying "Hey, Stupid..we keep telling you, antibiotics don't cure colds and flu, and no it's not a chest infection, you dozy hypochondriacal git, its a bit of bronchitis at worst, so sod off and buy some Lem-Sip."
The bleating that would follow in tabloids and day time televison would really get the point across...
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