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Re: drugs

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I once had the opposite problem with a doctor - initially refused to give me antibiotics, even though I was fairly certain that a specific illness was bacterial. Considering I generally think things are viral and I don't *like* antibiotics that should have been a hint, but I suppose the fact that I visited her anytime I got sick enough to need to stay home (even for colds and the like) because my boss insisted on a doc's note made me seem like a hypochondriac. After a couple more visits, she eventually gave me a script for penicillin.

At this point I suspected it was my molars rather than my throat and headed to a dentist. I was right - my molars were infected. I got recommended to an oral surgeon, since my wisdom teeth needed to come out anyway. Set me up for an appointment once I'd finished my course of antibiotics, but I was going to be done with the course much earlier than he thought I ought to be. So he took a look at my perscription and about hit the ceiling - I'd been given such a low dose, for so little time, that it wouldn't have done a damned thing about my infection except possibly make it antibiotic-resistant. He gave me a real perscription, and I never went back to that doctor again.