Department of Medicine

Doctors, patients say more needs to be done to warn patients of side effects of popular antibiotics

Written by The Denver Channel | April 04, 2022

Dr. Tim Jenkins, an infectious disease physician at Denver Health, was part of an expert Center for Disease Control and Prevention panel investigating the overuse of antibiotics like fluoroquinolones. The study found 47% of fluroquinolones given to patients in the hospital should have never been prescribed.