By Marie Rosenthal, MS
More white than Black patients receive antibiotics from their healthcare providers, but this might be one case in which a health inequity actually improves care, because the majority of antibiotics prescribed to outpatients are unnecessary, explained Zanthia Wiley, MD, an associate professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta.
Although all health inequities need to be addressed, Dr. Wiley does not want to see unnecessary and inappropriate