How can we get people to stop popping pills for every symptom they have?
educate the public and remind them that not everything needs a pill or antibiotic. I work in college health and our practitioners work on educating along with treating the students that come in on how to recognize different illnesses and when a antibiotic would be beneficial and when to take the “wait and see approach” We prescribe when necessary but encourage the students to let their bodies fight off minor illness such as the common cold or uncomplicated flu. Viruses don’t respond to antibiotics and it’s a waste of medicine and time to prescribe something that in effect does nothing and can actually be harmful in the long run. It’s the medical community’s responsibility to educate the public from a early age that sometimes it’s ok to let the body take care of itself and that watchful waiting and careful observation is ok, provided that the person is generally healthy and without any underlying medical conditions. I don’t know that you are going to get the medical community to admit t
