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When people go to the doctor for a sore throat, they want "take these pills and it will get better". They don't want to hear "let your immune system deal with i
by klipt 9y ago
When people go to the doctor for a sore throat, they want "take these pills and it will get better". They don't want to hear "let your immune system deal with it", because that makes them wonder why they even bothered going to the doctor.
Hence doctors prescribing antibiotics - it's something to take.
- nerdponx 9y agoThen give them a placebo. It's ridiculous and infuriating that I had to fight for a full course of doxycycline to treat a proven Lyme disease infection, while people get antibiotics for harmless transient infections just to make them feel like they're doing something. Isn't it in the long-term best interests of health insurers to be on the front lines fighting antibiotic resistance?
- klipt 9y agoProbably, but tragedy of the commons etc.