Physicians warn of looming superbug crisis

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There's a superbug crisis brewing in the United States, and it's caused by the overprescription of antibiotics by doctors. The answer to this crisis, say medical researchers, is to come up with yet more antibiotics. If we don't, hundreds of thousands of hospitalized patients could die each year from superbug infections that simply can't be treated with even the strongest antibiotics available today.

I have a different take on all this: maybe antibiotics are the problem, not the solution. Maybe we need to support patients' immune systems so they can fight off infections, and stop concocting ever more complicated pharmaceuticals that actually promote the breeding of drug-resistant strains of bacteria.

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