Slow Movement on Antibiotic Resistance: Could inspiration to trigger real action on the global medical problems caused by bacterial drug resistance come from a musical source?

Abstract

I had just started telling a friend how regrettable it was that many doctors prescribe antibiotics for trivial infections, even for minor troubles that might be virus infections or not even infections at all, when he interrupted—pleading agreement with every word. “You’re quite right,” he insisted, “I would never dream of troubling my doctor for trivial complaints. I go to the Internet and find the antibiotics I want there. Years ago, every time I went to a country where the stuff was available across the counter, I used to stock up.”