IT HAS taken me a while to come to grips with it but I have concluded that I have a drug problem.
No, I do not use illicit drugs. In the rather unlikely event that I am ever nominated for high public office, a painstaking scrutiny of even my college years will pass muster with the most zealous of congressional investigators or the lowest delving muckraker.
No, I do not self-prescribe, divert, or otherwise seek prescription drugs. Indeed, like most physicians I maintain a sort of aloof aversion to obtaining any medical care for myself.
No, I do not drink to excess or use tobacco beyond the occasional celebratory cigar on the birth of a child, a deliciously Freudian custom that I see as the sole appropriate use of the nefarious weed.
My drug problem is this: I over-prescribe antibiotics.
I imagine that this confession will be met not with
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