Two dr.'s I went to didn't give me abx for my red throat and pus.?

Doctors nowadays are reluctant to give out antibiotics without the paperwork to back it up. This is due to the increasingly resistant strains of bacteria out there, which some claim is to overuse of antibiotics.

The doctors didn't give you treatment because you most likely had a viral infection. You would have been better after a couple weeks regardless of the antibiotics because the antibiotics don't treat viral infections, time does. People however want antibiotics for every little pain, and get them for being persistant. they then think the antibiotics are why they feel better and don't realize that the disease just ran its course.

Dr's need to be more careful about overprescibing antibiotics due to ever increasing resistant strains of bacteria (think MRSA) that are the result of prescribing antibiotics when they are not needed, and patients not finishing the prescribed course of antibiotics when they really did need them.

We all need to do our part to help prevent more resistant strains of bacteria. Colds are due to viruses.

Doctors are trying NOT to give everyone antibiotics for every little illness because all these germs are becoming resistant to antibiotics. The more often you have antibiotics in your lifetime, the higher the risk of you becoming resistant (your germs become resistant) to antibiotic treatment. There are lots of illnessess which do not need treated with antibiotics and in time, will heal on their own without treatment. Most people do not tolerate the watch and wait and treat the symptoms advice, thus the dilemma that the people of the US are in today with "superbugs" multiplying everywhere and now no antibiotics to kill them because they have become "resistant"

Sounds like the first 2 drs didnt know what was wrong and the third one did,unfortunaltey thats been happening alot ,needing seen several times to get better!