While some of the blame for antibiotic overuse belongs with patients, a lot does belong with some (but not all) doctors. My family doctor has never prescribed anything for me. When I go to a walk-in clinic, they've pretty much got the antibiotic prescription ready to go when the doctor comes into the room.
My son had an unusal infection a couple of years ago we couldn't get in to see his family doctor for a couple of weeks. A doctor at a walk-in clinic prescribed antibiotics right away. When that didn't work, he prescribed a different antibiotic. When we finally got in to his family doctor, she sent us to a specialist who right away could tell what it was and that it was not treatable by antiobiotics but rather had to be surgically removed. The walk-in clinic doctors in general just don't seem to be interested in figuring out what the problem is though, they just want to deal with the patient as quickly as possible.
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