Ailment Quote by Carre Otis

Why do physicians prescribe powerful antibiotics? Generally not because our patients ask for them. Most people who come in with a sore throat would…

— Scott Gottlieb

A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's…

— Pamela Sue Martin

Antibiotics have serious adverse reactions: diarrhea, anaphylaxis, allergies, rashes. We don't give these medications without discussing the risks and benefits and only when they're…

— Mikhail Varshavski

I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

— Alicia Silverstone

I had quite a healthy childhood in the countryside, but I did have double pneumonia aged eight, and was one of the first patients…

— Prunella Scales

Sometimes when you get sick and you go to the doctor, it can feel like you didn't get your money's worth if you don't…

— Vivek Murthy

I've experienced wrong diagnoses and been given antibiotics for things that could be cured naturally. We may not think much of it, but it…

— Nargis Fakhri

“As long as amoxicillin is given to our children who have pneumococci in their noses and throats, whether harmless or not, antibiotic resistance is…

— Martin J. Blaser

Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics,…

— Margaret Chan

If your child has a strep throat, and you're on vacation, it doesn't necessarily mean that they need antibiotics. In fact, by the majority,…

— Mikhail Varshavski

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow…

— Andrew Weil

I was on as many as seven medications at one time, doctors didn't know what to do with me.

— Darrell Hammond