need it? that is the problem. what you just said you want the antibiotics and the doctor is obligated to give it to you. one statistic that marc mentioned 259 million prescription for 309 million population. the problem is the doctors and the patients are involved in this. look, imagine going to see your doctor and you wait in the waiting room. finally you see him. you walk out of the office and say you know what? maybe we should wait and see and do nothing. get rest and drink fluid and call me tomorrow. eric: i paid $200 for that? right. there is a knee-jerk reaction that the doctor is pulling out the prescriptions too often. let me just say that antibiotic has been a great weapon to bacteria for the last 80 years. when alax zender fleming discovered this in 1927, its has saved millions of lives. but at that time, we didn t know much. over the years we became casual. z-pack of the world and prescriptions.