Spraying for the Joy of Spraying Where There Be No Need For Spraying...

I had a notice from my management a couple of days ago that pest control will be going to each apartment and if we needed our apartment treated to empty out all our drawers and cabinets and if we didn't require this service then not to empty out anything. Since, I don't have any pest problems in my apartment, I didn't do anything and figured they would leave my apartment alone as all the drawers and cabinets were closed and everything was in its appropriate place. Talk about people not following directions and not doing their job properly: I come home from school to this rather nauseating smell with a big sticker on my kitchen counter saying, "Your Apartment was Treated Today --Signed by Pest Control".

Is this what we educate and train ourselves for? To give treatment where there is no treatment needed? Do we as doctors often do this to our patients? Indeed we give prophylaxis while we await lab results when the benefits outweigh the risks. But, how many doctors out there are guilty of prescribing antibiotics for a cold that was in fact viral in nature? What good is our training if we don't use our head as to when and where we need to apply it? We're demeaning ourselves as being these brainless machines, just fulfilling tasks in a huge assembly line that happens to go circular around something we call, the Earth!