TY - JOUR T1 - Respiratory infections JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 945 LP - 945 DO - 10.3399/bjgp09X473222 VL - 59 IS - 569 AU - John Howie Y1 - 2009/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/59/569/945.1.abstract N2 - I read the themed October BJGP on respiratory infections with both interest and nostalgia. I would like to make two general points.First, although Verheij's admirable leading article uses and quotes the phrase ‘antibiotic revolution’,1 what struck me most in the linked papers was not how much has changed over the last 30 years, but how little things have changed. Wang et al's findings of large inter-practice prescribing variations2 closely mirror the pattern of the 1970s. And extrapolating from the data Meropol et al3 present, … ER -