What Doctors Dont Tell you — The Superbug

Yet again What Doctors Dont Tell you has misinterpreted information and blabbed it out to the public like it is Fact. This time it is about the failure rates of Antibiotics.

Here is their (dare I say it) “article”:

http://www.wddty.com/antibiotics-failing-in-up-to-50-per-cent-of-patients.html

and the reference they gave for the article:

http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g5493

Starts off with a sensationalised Headline:

Antibiotics failing in up to 50 per cent of patients

Automatically you are thinking “Quick get the kids and run for the hills – nothing can save us!!!!. In all honesty I have no idea where they plucked that figure from as there is no indication of 50% failure rates from the study. Here is the results outlined in the Abstract:

If anything they missed an opportunity, they could have picked out the failure rate of 70% for trimethoprim in 2008–2012 but they didn’t (not in the headline anyway). It clearly states that the overall failure rate is 15.4%.

Then there is the first paragraph (sigh) :

All i can say to that is WTF!! – there is no indication in the research that the failure rates suggest the age of the superbug is getting closer – this is pure scaremongering conjecture, and it is disgusting.

The real blood boiling problem with the “article”, for me starts with the third paragraph.

Doctors are prescribing antibiotics inappropriately – this study doesn’t say that at all, this is complete garbage, the closest thing i could find in the study that they could have manipulated was this:

You notice the second paragraph, states that primary care physicians could play a central role in antibiotic treatment failure and considering whether each prescription is justified, evidently WDDTY have decided to manipulate that to tarnish doctors as a whole.

Well done WDDTY – once again, award winning reporting from a super bug.