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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a pediatrician, the amount of misinformation on this thread is mind boggling.  It's like a perfect storm of terrible information from multiple angles.  It makes me want to retire. I mean, image going to school for what seems like eternity, and practicing medicine within relatively limited scope (pediatric primary care) for two full decades. And having these moms come at you with their random, highly misinterpreted internet research and comments like "I feel like I've been gaslighted, antibiotics DO work for viral infections!" and accusing you of treating amoxicillin like oxycontin.

Except the poster who is dying on the hill of "green mucus does not necessarily mean you have a bacterial infection".  You can stay. [/quote]

I was just about to say this. I’m an internist and wow a lot of misinformation here. I wish people would trust the experts more these days. [/quote]

Well you and the pediatrician are also anonymous entities... and you didn't provide any helpful additional info whatsoever. Just arrogance.

But I'm a leading scientist and doctor at NIH and I think everyone on here is right. So there. [/quote]

I mean in the current administration, if a leading NIH scientist told me that giving antibiotics for colds would prevent sinus infections and everyone would be healthier, that would track, given how incompetent all of these appointees are under Trump.

and no I’m not going to try to convince you that you’re wrong, online, for free. Come to clinic and I’m happy to have what amounts to a non billable 20min discussion with you about your tinfoil hat theories , because it’s my job and I actually care about your kids health and I’m trying to make a small dent of good in the world. It’s pretty much all I do these days- calmly debunk whatever TikTok rumor a parent has latched on to and then hope and pray that they’ll allow me to vaccinate their baby against literal deadly diseases if I beg them. [/quote]

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