The doctor's office just told me that they were not allowed to call in

[Aristus]

232. Wasting bandwidth, then.

I, and the other medical providers and allied health personnel came onto this thread to point out the detrimental effects of prescribing antibiotics for viral infections, and about being judicious about prescribing them in general.

You, and others, including the OP, have made a series of nonsensical arguments that are essentially a wasteof time, and ignore the good points we have made.

Rebuttal has been basically:

"Why don't you do what the patient wants?"

"Did you try this? If not, why not?"

"How would you feel if...?"

"Cows get way more antibiotics than humans do, so good, sound medical practice is meaningless."

"My cousin's barber's next door neighbor's nephew died from not getting antibiotics!"

And as the biggest fan of the Muppets on the planet, it pains me to point out that Henson's doctor himself stated that Henson put off going to the hospital until it was too late. An indication that the patient, any patient, bears some responsibility in evaluation and outcome.