About a month and a half ago I had a Mohs procedure to remove a melanoma from my scalp. The plastic surgeon gave me a prophylactic antibiotic and no infection resulted for which I am grateful.
I, too, remember pre-penicillin days. I had a carbuncle on my stomach and a sulfa drug was utilized. It took a long, long time to get rid of the infection. Thank God for antibiotics! Unfortunately they have been carelessly overused all over the world but they have saved many lives.
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