Environmental Pollution with Resistant Microbes

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Abstract
The do-no-harm doctrine, fundamental to most physicians, is often unwittingly relegated to secondary status by the understandable human desire to "do something." The unfortunate consequences of this reversal of priorities are nowhere better catalogued than in the chronicles of antibiotic usage, where three decades of secondary catastrophes are recorded. The phenomena resulting from the toxicity and hypersensitivity induced by these miracle drugs exhibit their mark in every bodily organ, cell and orifice. To wager today that any new antimicrobial agent will be completely safe, regardless of its alchemy, is to ignore the laws which make paupers of chronic roulette enthusiasts. . . .