> I can afford to go to a nice doctor If your doctor is giving you antibiotics for clearly viral illnesses they are doing a disservice to you, it isn’t actuall

> I can afford to go to a nice doctor If your doctor is giving you antibiotics for clearly viral illnesses they are doing a disservice to you, it isn’t actually nice. It’s not like I’ve ever seen some systemic withholding of antibiotics when they are clearly indicated - quite the opposite, some of the worst areas for resistance are the poorest. They aren’t without other side effects, resistance being only one. Also you have it backwards, the racist thing to do is to just prescribe the antibiotics, since they are dirt cheap, cost me (the provider) nothing, and makes the person whose skin color I possibly don’t like get out of my office faster (if not racism, pragmatism to see too many patients). Racism alone is not necessarily the only explanation, but antibiotic over prescription/use tends to be associated with poverty. Well run antibiotic stewardship is a conceit of the most affluent health systems.