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Re:World on cusp of 'post-antibiotic era' by barkingcat on Friday November 20, 2015 @11:50AM (#10602177)
culturing and finding out underlying infection is a great way to ensure that we're actually applying the right medication! Eventually down the line we may have to do just that if we continue to give antibiotics indiscriminately.

It's going to be costly but we're "back-loading" our medical process so that we leave the problem to the next generation of healthcare providers.

It's like we want everything for free - get sick? just give out a ton of medicine! Eventually we have to pay for it.

Re:World on cusp of 'post-antibiotic era' by gph on Friday November 20, 2015 @12:28PM (#10602436)
Then we need a faster and more accurate culturing process. At least from my experience it was neither of those things, and it's hard to say we should leave someone with a potentially deadly infection to lay around for a couple days while trying to figure out what bacteria is infecting them.