NanoViricides Inc. (NNVC)

[erdoc1958]

Here is why antibiotics are prescribed. A patient waits several hours in the ED for cough,sore throat, fever etc. The doctor tells him it is likely a virus and nothing can be done(could use tamiflu if onset less than 2 days and flu suspected). Now the patient is pissed he waited, so some doctors just give a zpak or similar antibiotic. The doctor's job is totally dependent on patient satisfaction and the patient often gets therapy that is not indicated. If the viral URI patient I spoke of earlier does not get an antibiotic, he goes to an urgent care, family doctor or another ED and gets an antibiotic. He gets better in 2 days, falsely attributes his improvement to the antibiotic( he would be well without anything), calls the first EDs hospital administrator complaining about the incompetent doctor. The ED doctor gets in trouble for not satisfying the patient and never makes the same mistake again. This happens over and over every day for many illnesses, causes a lot of harm and needless testing and imaging.