They still do. It's literally insane. Most will prescribe oral for everything even if it's just a cut. Not only will they give antibiotics they won't even tell someone to take a probiotic during treatment. Most doctors I've met over the years just phone it in and don't stay up to date on anything.
It’s partially doctors giving in to the demands of patients who want a prescription for everything. I think it’s a side effect of our expensive healthcare system. People don’t like paying their copay for just a band aid. Or to be told “it’s a virus, get some sleep and drink fluids”. They want to feel like they got something for their money.
Yeah, i remember being prescribed ampicillin and aspirin for every cold, as a child. They didn't care, they only wanted to "do something".
I remember in highschool having a colleague who's overprotective mother was also a germophobe, and was treating her only son with ever increasing doses of antibiotics every winter. By the time we met, pills had no effect(according to them, the hell knows what they meant by "effectiveness"), and he was getting intramuscular ones. The poor people probably never learned that there almost no antivirals, and are doing more harm that good. Antibiotics are thought to be a panacea around here, in eastern Europe.
