Some countries are very restrictive on prescribing antibiotics (almost too strict) and it feels like it falls flat as you can get it over the counter in a lot of places.
In Hungary, on the other hand, they hand them out like candies.
So yes, the solution was to import them from Hungary. :-)
Yes that’s exactly how it should be. They are not at all benign misprescribed.
> Even when I had a lung issue for 2 weeks I had to beg to get antibiotics.
Was there any evidence of a bacterial infection or did they just give in? 2 weeks is not a long time for a viral respiratory illness either.
They could have done some more tests or whatever, as it was maybe the worst lung issue I've had and I was really miserable. I knew that antibiotics would help, and they did. I sourced them myself.
You could say lucky guess, but after I complained to my health insurer about the bad doctor's visit, they covered the cost fully without any dispute, so they must have agreed with me with at least about maybe running some more tests...
This is a real posibility and is a real problem to test how useful the medicines are. So all serious studies use a control group [2] to compare the rate of spontanous healing with the rate of healing with the antibiotic.
[1] Some virus are very nasty and can kill you. People confuse the common cold andd the flu, but usualy the flu is much worse.
[2] Preferabely a preregistered double blind randomized control group, becuse there are a lot of other problem that can cause a false result.
For external infections, observation by visible inspection is still evidence, a sign, not a symptom. So, not sure what your point is. Erysipelas is invariably diagnosed by signs, not symptoms. Very rarely are bacterial infections diagnosed by symptoms alone.
When you go to multiple doctors and they're in agreement it's a bad idea, the correct response likely isn't to self-medicate in your addled state.