In my life, I declined or threw away roughly 50% of officially recommended antibiotics prescriptions from doctors and hospitals. Worst was the first doctor I v

In my life, I declined or threw away roughly 50% of officially recommended antibiotics prescriptions from doctors and hospitals. Worst was the first doctor I visited regularily after moving out from my childhood home. Whenever I came to him with any sort of flu to get the necessary papers for staying away from work for a few days, he prescribed antibiotics for the slightest cough I might have. I played along for two or three iterations, until I noticed my overall health would actually get worse from taking antibiotics. So I started to simply drop his prescriptions into the bin, and go back to drinking tea and eating fruits to get better. I had similar experiences with other doctors later. Our health system is such that you can actually make your health worse if you always listen to everything your doctors say. Sad, but unfortunately true. This is in part because people are not willing to ride out an infection at home. They expect from their doc to give them something magicaal which at least shortens their recovery time down to a day or two at most. And doctors, having learnt that their customers are expecting this, basically force feed the remedies to everyone. These days, you have to explicitly declare that you'd prefer to get better mostly on your own...