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Essay / A Farmer's Life by Sarz Davis Analysis - 2053
Antibiotics are increasingly used indiscriminately, because patients believe they are capable of prescribing antibiotics without a real medical need. In the journal article "The Responses of Medical General Practitioners to Unreasonable Patient Demand for Antibiotics - A Study of Medical Ethics Using Immersive Virtual Reality", Xueni Pan (2016), member of the University's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience of London and responsible for this study, found that patients were requesting antibiotics more often, even for minor ailments, and that doctors felt more obliged to prescribe these antibiotics to avoid losing patients. The practice of overprescribing antibiotics only makes us healthier in the short term, because this strategy invests heavily in present well-being versus the future, which could eventually create problems. In the article “The Spread of Superbugs,” Nicholas D. Kristof (2010) writes about the effects of the infection of Thomas M. Dukes, who was infected with E. Coli that was almost incurable. This article highlights the individual effects that superbugs can have and how finding ways to combat superbugs is a problem that needs to be solved in the near future. Education could easily help people identify the existence of superbugs