“You can say on a population basis that 95 percent of patients who present with these signs and symptoms have a virus. But when I have an individual in front of me and I’m going to see 10,000 of these individuals in my career, I’m going to be wrong sometimes. And if I’m wrong, the consequences could be really bad. That’s what drives most of it. And patients suffer from the same fear. They come, they don’t feel well, they want something. They don’t want to get into a philosophical debate. They want something that’s going to make them feel better. That’s why they ask for the prescription.”
