For more than a decade, I would have an average of 4 tonsillitis episodes a year and each bout of attack could only be resolved with antibiotics. I was constantly reminded by Heartland Girl that one of the well-known consequences of prolonged use of antibiotics is bacterial antibiotic resistance. She even remarked that she wouldn’t be surprised if antibiotics wouldn’t work on me when my body needs it the most to kill some super-bacteria. Therefore, I decided to nip this problem once and for all by going under the knife at the start of the year. I had tonsillectomy surgery in a government hospital, here’s how much it cost and my overall experience. CHOSE PUBLIC HOSPITAL OVER PRIVATE HOSPITAL I think it is important to declare at the start of the article that I have corporate insurance which would have covered my stay in a private hospital. For some reason unbeknown to even myself...