culturing and finding out underlying infection is a great way to ensure that we're actually applying the right medication! Eventually down the line we may have

culturing and finding out underlying infection is a great way to ensure that we're actually applying the right medication! Eventually down the line we may have to do just that if we continue to give antibiotics indiscriminately. It's going to be costly but we're "back-loading" our medical process so that we leave the problem to the next generation of healthcare providers. It's like we want everything for free - get sick? just give out a ton of medicine! Eventually we have to pay for it.