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Suggest Treatment For Chronic Bronchitis Accompanied With Severe Right-sided Chest Pain

What antibiotic would you use to treat a 60 year old male with a history of chronic bronchitis and severe right-sided chest pain, sob, and yellow tinged thick productive sputum. the sputum gram STAIN IS >50LKCS/HPf; 0-5 epithelium cells/HPF: gram negative rods
Mon, 23 Jan 2017
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Hello,
Doxycycline is probably the drug of choice, but he really needs a chest xray to make sure it is not a pneumonia
Regards,
Dr. Robinson
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Suggest Treatment For Chronic Bronchitis Accompanied With Severe Right-sided Chest Pain

Hello, Doxycycline is probably the drug of choice, but he really needs a chest xray to make sure it is not a pneumonia Regards, Dr. Robinson