No antibiotics for you.
Things I have been asked to “just call me in some antibiotics, Doc” for in the last month:
- seasonal allergies
- acid reflux
- nausea
- about a thousand viral runny noses and sore throats
- swollen uvula
- allergic rash
- the flu
Arguments people have made to get antibiotics:
- I promise I will come in to be checked out if the antibiotics don’t work.
- It would make me feel better.
- I might get sick over the weekend and I need them just in case.
- Last year I had this for weeks and could never get over it (it was a virus last year too!).
- Zpaks are the only thing that ever work for me.
- Dr. S would have given it to me.
My answer to all these patients:
