Joseph
IT generally doesnt harm patients though it does harm society
Mammale
“So if a patient knows that last time his sinus infection, for example, was cleared with anti-biotics”
the patient may very well be wrong, ho does he know that with antibiotics it will last a week and without it will last seen days
Even a bacterial infection doesn’t necessarily reqire antibiotics and unlike Cancer bronchitis is unlikely to be fatal
And if the doctor isn’t 100% certain that the patient is wrong, why wouldn’t he cave and prescribe it?”
He shouldn’t though he might to keep the patient happy