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Originally Posted by robbdn
Anyway, I find it interesting that not finishing the prescribed course is a big part of what causes the "induced resistance." I wonder, if people generally knew that, would the antibiotics scare would calm down a bit? Would people be more dilligent about finishing their prescribed course? By antibiotics scare I don't mean to imply that there is a large portion of people are hesitant about taking antibiotics, but I think that there is a significant minority. And I'm not saying that I still don't believe the average person takes too many medications for conditions that don't require them, but I also think there are a lot of people like me who are too wary to take medications even when they are needed, probably due to misconceptions like mine.
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People are stupid. Ask anyone.
This has been common knowledge among doctors for years, and there's usually warnings on your antibiotics to finish it off. Unfortunately, doctors also tend to prescribe the strongest antibiotics for bugs that don't necessarily need that level of medicine to kill them off, and the ones that do end up surviving do so because they've developed a resistance to that family of drugs. Tuberculosis has become drug resistant in Russia because the prison system has treated patients in a slipshod manner. The prisoners have passed the disease out into the population at large, and there are cases that are nearly untreatable with modern drugs.