No doctor is ever going to prescribe steroids that do not end in a tapering dose (necessary for initial durations longer than 5 days).
It literally kills and is negligent
Finally, there is emerging data that prolonged tapering may actually worsen outcomes, such as in certain post operative settings.
So, please don't assume the doctor is always right. Do your due diligence. They are fallible just like us, to be honest, I think they are just engineers working on the human body.
So whatever they are supposed to do, that's not what I personally experienced.
Again that’s terrible practice but more often than not, given the prevelance of Benzo knowledge and specific requests from patients, some people end up giving them away (similarly to antibiotics for viral infections). It’s bad medicine but when GPs have 20 minutes for a consult and patients are more and more demanding... corners are cut when harm is considered minimal (ie regular low level Benzo dosing).
For example, probably 20-30% of elderly patients in hospital are on temazepam on arrival. They’re taking 10mg every night. That should never happen, but it does all the time.