Everyone knows you get a culture for an animal bite and then write a prescription for the single species of bacteria infecting the wound. It’s just procedure! Same for tick bites, definitely not just writing out amoxicillin and calling it a day, gotta wait two weeks and send in some blood work first to give the Lyme disease time to settle in and show up nice and clean.

Correct. I’m a third year medical student on my clinical rotations right now, and I worked in the medical field for 4 years before starting med school.