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Re:People Are Buying Fish Antibiotics Because They Can’t Aff... by o_____________o on Monday July 31, 2017 @05:35PM (#14896094)
Anecdotally, yes – most doctor's visits seem to end in steroid or antibiotic prescriptions. I've known of some doctors that prescribe antibiotics for things like colds just to give the patient a placebo.
Re:People Are Buying Fish Antibiotics Because They Can’t Aff... by saurik on Monday July 31, 2017 @05:58PM (#14896252)
The doctor that I often end up seeing refused to let me leave once without a handful of steroid samples: he took my insistence to not be prescribed them for a form of walking pneumonia we both agreed would go away on its own in a couple days and for which nothing could really be done as some kind of indication that I couldn't afford them, so he scavenged random remnants of samples he had around... and also gave me a "just in case" prescription for that antibiotic I didn't need or want. This is even after we had specifically done a test in the office that both he and I knew meant I had a specific mycobacterial issue that this antibiotic couldn't be effective against... I just don't get it :/.