Why are some patients lying to their doctors to get antibiotics?

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20261110/Why-are-some-patients-lying-to-their-doctors-to-get-antibiotics.aspx From feeling ignored by doctors to believing antibiotics are the only answer, new research reveals why some patients bend the truth to get prescriptions, and what this could mean for antibiotic resistance. A recent study in the journal JAMA Network Open reports that in a survey of US adults, nearly 28% said they had at some point misrepresented their symptoms to clinicians to obtain antibiotics. Lower awareness of antibiotic risks and the dangers of antimicrobial resistance were associated with higher odds of such misrepresentation.