Any time I have ever gone to the doctor with an infection, I have never had to wait around for the doctor to do a Gram stain or culture or anything to determine exactly what I had, nor did the doctor make any effort to follow up and make sure I completed the course of treatment....Other times, I just need more cream for psoriasis or whatever, and it's exactly the same psoriasis I had last time I saw the doctor, and it's a waste of time and resources to go get another prescription that he's going to give on the spot anyway just when I tell him "yeah, it still works, I just need more". I may as well just order it online.
Well what they are supposed to do is make an empirical choice, take a sample BEFORE starting you on AB's, and let you know if you have to change later.
Could not agree more about repeat scripts. Where I live you can generally phone for another prescritption and pick it up from the secretary. You pay nothing for the script (but you will pay to fill it) and it saves clogging up the doctor.