In Latvia, the ancient tension between poverty and public health has found a quiet but consequential battleground: the space between a hospital discharge and a pharmacy counter. Beginning this month, Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital began sending patients home with their full antibiotic course in hand, free of charge, recognizing that antimicrobial resistance is not only a biological phenomenon but a social one — born as much from exhaustion and financial hardship as from microbial adaptation. The pilot program asks a simple question with profound implications: if we remove every ba