[stefanix]

Having lived in the US and moved to Austria, I can say it's quite comical how few times doctors prescribe antibiotics here. It's something like 10:1.

At times this is frustrating because you want the easy fix and when antibiotics work they work really well.

It's also quite illuminating how many symptoms do not seem to benefit from taking antibiotics even when they are the knee-jerk treatment.

I sometimes joke that modern medicine is 50% prescribing cortisone and antibiotics.