The article discusses the misdiagnosis of an allergy to penicillin. Many doctors will diagnose a person with an allergy to penicillin, but never actually perform a test to properly diagnose them. Ten percent of American adults and children believe that they have an allergy to penicillin even though they may not. Ninety percent of the people that have reported having the allergy, do not have the allergy at all based on a report taken in 2010. Some people that actually had the allergy got over it as they got older. Since doctors to not want to risk the possibility of triggering a severe allergic reaction to the penicillin, they will prescribe other more expensive and less effective antibiotics. Using the more general antibiotics could actually
