Word: antibioticized
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Suddenly I was in the office of an opthamologist: it was an infection in my cornea, probably caused by contact overuse (very, very guilty). He gave me antibiotic eye drops (great). I would need to take them every hour (okay). Including overnight (what?!).
He added that his surgical safety checklist, which was the product of months of revision, reduces this struggle. Two of his basic “checks” include timing antibiotic injections before incision, and instructing operating team members to tell each other their names and voice their concerns before...
In addition, the discovery may provide leads in the search for other antibiotic compounds produced by bacteria, according to Kontnik.
“We were looking for methods to turn on the production of new encoded molecules as a drug discovery platform, which would eventually allow science to find new small molecules that lead to the new big antibiotic,” Crawford added.
In fact, they did look. A fairly senior doctor hastily flipped my eyelid but failed to notice anything, despite the development of bumps similar to cobblestones that were scraping my cornea every time I blinked. A simple steroid would have reduced the swelling (as it did once I was prescribed...