Great article. As a doctor this is a huge problem that we are seeing more and more on the front lines. It's already at the stage where every bacterial culture I see is resistant to something and multi-drug resistant organisms like ESBLs, VREs are becoming all too common.
As you say antimicrobial stewardship is very important and is a huge part of my job as well as educating the general public. I'm always seeing patients coming in demanding antibiotics for conditions that clearly don't need them. I'm happy to enter into a good chat with them explaing why they don't need antibiotics but it sometimes feels like a losing battle. Often have i seen doctors, just so overwhelmed or without time to waste, give out antibiotics to a demanding patient just so they can move on to the next!
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You're 100% right... I'm on a rural placement at the moment (in outback Australia) and our supervising doctors are often (reluctantly) handing out Abs for uncomplicated UTIs