Critical Reasoning (CR) | Many physicians cater to their patients’ insistence that they be given

Many physicians cater to their patients’ insistence that they be given antibiotics for a common cold . However, these illnesses are viral in nature, and such medications have no effect on viruses.This course of treatment is troublesome, as antibiotics have dangerous side effects and unnecessary use of these drugs can lead to resistant bacteria . So clearly doctors need to stop prescribing antibiotics to treat the common cold.

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