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Originally Posted by Badger52
I find this back & forth extremely interesting and thank you all for it. Especially appreciate Trapper's UW analogy vs. the "DA" approach. Sounds like a case of "lots of big hammers here, so everything looks like a nail."
Coming from a non-med perspective; relates both to my partial (but likely increasing) role as a caregiver, as well as my own simpleton curiosity as someone who hardly ever gets sick. Am fortunate to have a family practitioner who, on those rare times when an antibiotic is called for, seems to be of the consensus here. To wit, broad spectrum and go home & do the other things that need to be done to let the body help itself.
The question I ponder is, just how involved are patients generally in their care to the extent that a doc prescribing the latest whizbang "DA SEAL team or UAV" would raise a red flag? Do you ever get a sense that some are not sufficiently involved to even query a particular treatment regime? (or has it always been so?)
Just has me wondering because the caregivee in my life has quite a few things that have to be juggled by the Doc (thus far doing a superb job).
Thank you.
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It was my experience in primary care that patients are demanding antibiotics, not questioning their necessity. If they didn't get an antibiotic for their runny nose they would take their business to someone who would prescribe it...
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