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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (25064)	9/28/1998 2:26:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Boy, are you a dummy. Never try to argue with Mephisto. Yeah, a culture and a narrow spectrum is probably the best way to go. On the other hand, I've been going to a clinic connected with a very good hospital for several years now. I spent 4 hours getting a busy signal this morning so I went to a walk in Doctor who asked what I wanted and wrote me a prescription of E.mycin. It works. Has worked 30 times before. Cures it. No resistant germs are spread. By tomorrow I'll be feeling great and I will take all ten days, always have. Total cost $41. Now I could protest the system and maybe see the Doctor on Wednesday, get cultured on Thursday at the hospital. Go back to the Doctor on Tuesday and get a prescription for E.mycin. Later get an opinion from a private laboratory that did a second culture to prove the first. Total cost $500 if I'm lucky plus an extra week of hacking my lungs up so much I have a headache. Odds are no culture would be ordered so I could just hack up gobs of goobers until next June. No thanks.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (25064)	9/28/1998 3:16:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Alex, Ish, Reading ahead on this thread before posting, I gotta say that I agree with both of you, while erring on the side of caution and giving that tilt to Alex who clearly states the proven-by-hindsight science that we have learned from decades of indiscriminate antibiotic use and abuse. While erythromycin is one of the ancients, many of the ancients are no longer prescribed because they are now largely ineffective and potentially harmful. Ish mentions veterinary medicine. Alex, if you are bored with the market today but still looking for something to do that is stimulating and challenging, would you care to give us your thinking on the use of antibiotics and steroids (for other than curative purposes) in livestock and poultry how it affects us when we chow down what we buy in those pleasing plastic packages at the Safeway? TIA. Holly