Many doctors have the decision after a patient comes into their office for a sick visit on which antibiotic to use for the patient to start feeling better. Nobody realizes what might go through the doctor’s head while they are choosing what medication to prescribe. My article was a study based article that studied primary care providers also known as PCP’s knowledge, and attitude regarding the topic of antibiotic resistance. The objective was to assess the factors that would influence the provider’s antibiotic choice. After reading the article that I chose I now have a better understanding for why we might be under an antibiotic resistance epidemic. A lot of PCPs chose a certain antibiotic not because it’s the right medication to treat the
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Meaning no matter what you may have brewing even if it was once easy to treat it may now become a dangerous infection, and may not be easy to treat and in which will prolong suffering. The fact that no one can completely avoid the risk of antibiotic resistant is scary. Often when I go to doctor I am prescribed a certain antibiotic. I am not sure it that is because I am allergic to most antibiotics or the fact that I usually take it and it works so why not just prescribe it. Really makes you wonder since we haven’t had a new antibiotic made in a very long time if, one day we are all going to become resistant to all antibiotic’s completely and have nothing to fall back on. I think this article is favorable because we all have gone to the doctors one time or another and be put on an antibiotic and to know that our PCP many not be following guidelines when prescribing our antibiotics to us is kind of nerve raking, and scary if you think about it. In future science I think that one day if we don’t all be careful we may all be resistant to antibiotics. If this does happen what are we going to do? Who are we to blame? From the sounds of the article I read all that PCPs are trying to do is make the patients happy with their care so is it truly our fault. I believe that there will be a lot of consequences, if someone was to become resistance to antibiotics. These are many things that we need to think about the next time we walk into the doctor’s office to receive an antibiotic, maybe we shouldn’t allow our PCP to prescribe us what our bodies are used to getting but what the guidelines themselves say we
Meaning no matter what you may have brewing even if it was once easy to treat it may now become a dangerous infection, and may not be easy to treat and in which will prolong suffering. The fact that no one can completely avoid the risk of antibiotic resistant is scary. Often when I go to doctor I am prescribed a certain antibiotic. I am not sure it that is because I am allergic to most antibiotics or the fact that I usually take it and it works so why not just prescribe it. Really makes you wonder since we haven’t had a new antibiotic made in a very long time if, one day we are all going to become resistant to all antibiotic’s completely and have nothing to fall back on. I think this article is favorable because we all have gone to the doctors one time or another and be put on an antibiotic and to know that our PCP many not be following guidelines when prescribing our antibiotics to us is kind of nerve raking, and scary if you think about it. In future science I think that one day if we don’t all be careful we may all be resistant to antibiotics. If this does happen what are we going to do? Who are we to blame? From the sounds of the article I read all that PCPs are trying to do is make the patients happy with their care so is it truly our fault. I believe that there will be a lot of consequences, if someone was to become resistance to antibiotics. These are many things that we need to think about the next time we walk into the doctor’s office to receive an antibiotic, maybe we shouldn’t allow our PCP to prescribe us what our bodies are used to getting but what the guidelines themselves say we