Should doctors be held responsible for over prescripting antibiotics?
Answers: The doctors, certainly. They have the yes/no judgment on what to give patients, no issue what the patient asks for. It's a cop-out to say aloud it's the patients fault because they "insist". They didn't stir to medical school, they aren't qualified to self-prescribe, so consent to 'em "insist" all daylight long. Nobody is holding a gun to the doctor's head forcing them to write scrips for drugs that aren't needed and in fact shouldn't be prescribed.
Personally, I hold the general public responsible because it's their robustness and their bodies. As a rule, doctors get hit both ways. If they don't prescribe what the tolerant wants, the long-suffering complains. When they get what they want, they expect sleight of hand overnight, and when it doesn't happen- they complain. They get medication and don't take it correctly, and next say the drug didn't help/didn't work, and want a new prescription. People don't want to hear no, they reckon the doctor is providing a service like at some restaurant- and they want it adjectives "their way". Which is fine if you are burning burgers, but not for medicine. Doctors don't "loan" pills to their pious friends who happen to be sick- "it's like thing I have last month, girl". Doctors don't stash that finishing four days of antibiotic back surrounded by the cabinet "just within case", and then purloin it a year later when they consistency a "stomach flu" coming on. It's not overprescribing that's mostly to blame, it's the general public misusing them and abuse them.
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