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I’m with you for the most part, but not on the antibiotics. When people misuse them, they ruin their effectiveness for all of us. We’re already losing the race with bacteria building resistance, if we let everyone misuse them to their heart’s content, I’d be willing to bet antibiotics would be worthless within our lifetimes.

Except that it is the doctors who have caused them to be heavily over used in the first place. With a little knowledge many people would not have used them so heavily as their doctors prescribed for them to use them. They would give them out like gumdrops to people who had viruses such as colds to placate them into thinking that something was being done for them, and they likely got kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies for selling them.

I have used an extremely small amount of them in my lifetime, because I know the risks. I have used them less than I have been prescribed them. If knowledge was king, rather than blind trust of authorities, such as doctors, the people could be trusted to make just as good as decisions as professionals and without the added pressure of being used to make money off from them. I think most people would get medical consultation anyway, but would be more responsible about their own personal medical decisions.

Interesting thing is that with my pets I often out knowledge the vets, who finally come to the point of prescribing what I knew was best in the first place.