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Docs writing fewer scripts

People are less likely to get antibiotics for respiratory infections

By Nathan Seppa

- More than 2 years ago

Since the mid-1990s, doctors have written fewer antibiotic prescriptions per year for respiratory infections, a new survey shows.

DOCTORS’ ORDERS Doctors wrote fewer prescriptions annually for antibiotics for acute respiratory infections in 2005 and 2006 than they wrote a decade before, a new survey shows.