Which is worse: For a patient to die of an undiagnosed bacterial infection, or to risk increasing antibiotic resistance by prescribing it when not clearly indicated?
The art of medicine has been reduced to following government rules.
These rules are taking us back to an era where it will be survival of the fittest.
Medical care is much cheaper that way.
For instance....an elderly male enters the ER with a bladder infection, yet he is not given antibiotics until the offending “bug” is grown in a culture which could take days because the government will not pay for treatment unless it can first actually can be proven that he needs a certain anti-biotic for a “bug” that has been IDENTIFIED.
In the meantime, the elderly man either lives....or dies from septicemia, which means the “bug” has now entered his blood and infects his heart, kidneys,etc.
Many doctors are quitting.