re: OT Doctors- Why do we become immune to antibiotics?

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Antibiotics are overly prescribed in my opinion, but I'm no doctor.

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Linking doctor reimbursement to patient satisfaction has only made this worse. People go to a doctor with a cold that's likely viral and demand antibiotics. If you don't give them to the patient, the patient is not satisfied or goes to another doctor who may be more willing to please a patient by giving antibiotics.

Using antibiotics when we don't need to is obviously bad, but it's nothing compared to other countries like India where people can literally go to the market and buy a bag of antibiotics. It's completely unregulated. Another problem is the use of abx in the poultry industry. The birds grow a lot bigger and faster with abx in their system, though, so I'm not sure how you convince the poultry farmers to end the practice.