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Comment by hp48fan

3 years ago

Im on my fifth (?) pediatrician. This one's the first one I even like as a person.

You said in a sister comment that your doctor wouldn't prescribe antibiotics until a culture came back. Isn't that precisely the opposite of giving them out freely in the same situations you would?

Yes, in your case the culture came back positive. But, you're not psychic, you didn't really know that, and you're biased by the fact it's your own child.

  • Do you know how many Dr.s a parent deals with? After hours, you don't go to your family Dr. This year alone Ive probably seen a dozen Dr.s

    Ive had some Drs push antibiotics after they literally just said a persistent cough is probably viral.

    Ive had my daughter with blood curdling screams told her urine came out negative and her urine would have to be cultured. They can culture it all they want but I didn't leave without the antibiotic. Guess how the cultures come out? Plural because it happened more than once and the quick test at the Dr. has a high false + rate. Btw, untreated UTIs cause scarring.

    Btw, Dr. dont pearl clutch when it comes to their loved one. My colleague, who's married to a physician, got started on antibiotics for Lyme disease before the cultures came back positive. Just in case.

    "But, you're not psychic, you didn't really know that,"

    No, Im not. I just happen to have a neural network on the top of my head with hundred of millions (billions?) of years of evolution to spot trends.