Whenever I had (minor) surgery in France, I was given antibiotics "as a shield". I obviously do not know if this helped or not. Now, French doctors were always

Whenever I had (minor) surgery in France, I was given antibiotics "as a shield". I obviously do not know if this helped or not. Now, French doctors were always very quick to prescribe antibiotics (as a kid I had plenty of them) and it took quite a lot of effort to change their(and parent's) mind. My children got much less, though they were almost never checked for virus vs bacterial infection.