Thank you.
Dr. Morris, I was very interested in what you said about the lack of a role in failure to complete a course of antibiotics, because that was one of the things I was taught in residency: you should use antibiotics like azithromycin, which have a shorter course, because they're more likely to complete, and less resistance, and how we find out.... As I say, that's news to me that it's not actually an issue. That was very interesting.
My challenge is that my whole career was in the emergency department. The last eight years were in an inner-city emergency department. There was a lot of poverty. A large proportion of my patients did not have a primary care physician. All their primary care was through the emergency department, so we saw things that we had to prescribe antibiotics for, and follow-up was a tremendous challenge.
How would you advise the emergency medicine community? They're doing a greater share of primary care. What advice would you give to that field in follow-up and their antimicrobial stewardship?