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I have had similar experiences. I end up having to do my own research if I want a problem actually solved. Another thing that bothers me is that they never see

I have had similar experiences. I end up having to do my own research if I want a problem actually solved. Another thing that bothers me is that they never seem to do any sort of testing. They just throw solutions at the problem until one of them works. It is 2021 we have had the technology to grow something in a culture for over 160 years now, but no just take these antibiotics and if they don't work come back and I'll take another random shot in the dark.

selfsimilar 5y ago
While nominally true for many bacteria, there’s still overwhelmingly many we can’t culture, and those we can take many different media to cultivate. “Bacterial culture is frequently more difficult and often requires more training than molecular techniques”[1] There’s a good chance that many doctors are stuck in a mindset that culturing is too difficult, costly, and time consuming to be effective for all but the most resistant infections, but I’m not sure they’re wrong. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4284306/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4284306/