Lies My Doctor Told Me Second Edition: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health by D. Berry MD Ken

Author:D. Berry, MD, Ken
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing
Published: 2019-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

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THE LIE

Your runny nose, earache, or cough won’t get better unless you take a course of antibiotics. If you take an antibiotic, you will get over your runny nose, earache, or cough more quickly.

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

Even though we have been trained to think that taking antibiotics is no big deal, in truth it’s a very big deal to take a course of antibiotics. The antibiotic can be dangerous to you while you take it, and it also can cause long-term issues with your health. If there are certain types of infections that don’t respond to antibiotics, then we shouldn’t take the risk of using antibiotics for those infections. For infections that do respond to antibiotics, we should weigh the risks and benefits of taking antibiotics to address them. When we take antibiotics, we always should consider additional steps to minimize other complications of taking the antibiotics.

SUPPORT FOR THE LIE

Since penicillin became known for its lifesaving bacteria-killing properties, humankind has rushed to receive this seemingly miraculous class of medicines. There is no doubt that antibiotics have saved many lives. It’s also true that many a life has been taken, or made miserable, by inappropriate antibiotic use. Extensive research shows that antibiotics are effective against certain bacteria, and the research demonstrates the benefits of taking the drugs. Unfortunately, both laziness and the quest for money have led to the gross overuse of antibiotics for infections that aren’t responsive to antibiotics or that would have resolved on their own without medicine of any kind. Of course, antibiotics work well under the right circumstances; there’s no question about that. The question is why your doctor prescribes them so often when you don’t need them and they’re not helpful.

For decades, doctors have been telling this medical lie in deed if not in words. Even if your doctor has pamphlets in the waiting room about how colds and other infections are caused by viruses that don’t respond to antibiotics, you might still leave his office with a prescription for antibiotics. It’s almost as if doctors have been trained by demanding patients to prescribe antibiotics even when they aren’t needed.

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