These stories are what made me think of the anti- antibiotic class I took a few years ago. This training made it sound as if providers were insisting that doctors provide antibiotics. Even if they were - what doctor would provide a prescription because a provider demanded it?
It sounds more like some doctors need to grow some integrity and some backbone and not prescribe something unless it should be prescribed. And not give in to the demands of parents for a "return" note to child care unless that is called for either.
Sure, parents are caught between a rock and a hard place sometimes. Work, sick child, it's not easy. But that does not mean that a sick child belongs in group care.

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