Mark McIntyre, PharmD, is a Pharmacotherapy Specialist at the Sinai Health-University Health Network Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, UHN. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto.
Antimicrobial resistance long has been described as a “slow-moving tsunami,” suggesting its only likely to occur in some far-distant future. It may seem that we do not need to take immediate action because there is still time … but is there?