"...The global medical community struggles with the unnecessary prescription of antibiotics. It can potentially harm a patient to give medicine that isn?t needed, and another big fear is that antibiotic-resistant bacteria will be created when medicines are inappropriately used. From a public health and safety perspective, it can be argued that one of the greatest advances in medicine in the past decades has been learning when not to prescribe antibiotics. Western countries are to be respected for their efforts to stop the dispensing of bacterial antibiotics to patients who most likely have a viral infection, and therefore won?t benefit from the pills. However, from a global health standpoint, the low-hanging fruit for changing the behaviour of physicians to combat antibiotic resistance occurs in countries like Myanmar. Almost all physicians in Yangon are aware that we doctors prescribe antibiotics excessively. Even more ominous is the widespread selling of antibiotics from the thousands of places in Myanmar that offer pharmaceuticals in their shop fronts..."