Patients are equally sloppy. When they feel better, many discontinue antibiotic use. Providers too readily prescribe antibiotics to try to appease patients with

Patients are equally sloppy. When they feel better, many discontinue antibiotic use. Providers too readily prescribe antibiotics to try to appease patients with, say, an obvious viral respiratory infection, but these are most often less valuable antibiotics such as first generation penicillins anyways. Judicious antibiotic use is important, both for patient and provider, but there is a more pernicious problem lurking: the use of late-generation antibiotics - still critical for hospital use - in feed to produce larger livestock more cheaply.