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[drdoug]

Saw locum GP again today. The sputum culture has come back, and they've found Haemophilus influenzae, which was resistant to amoxycillin, clarithromycin, and erythromycin. That would explain why the amoxycillin wasn't fixing everything, and taking a macrolide (clarithromycin, erythromycin, or azithromycin) probably wouldn't have helped anyway

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[drdoug]

It may well be a pneumonia, although my breathing is freer than you'd generally expect for that. The sick note says just 'chest infection'. But I am in bed!

[drdoug]

Thanks. And that's useful thoughts

[jvvw]

You don't have Dr in front of your name on your GPs notes somewhere do you?

(And hope you get better soon too!)

[drdoug]

Could be, I suppose. I wonder what balance of doctors-who-make-you-better to doctors-who-make-you-worse they have on their rolls? If I had more brains I'd do a Fermi calculation here

[barakta]

Yes but medical doctors are not statisticians or mathematicians who may know or be able to do quick and dirty Fermi calculations... I think they like to forget that there are people allowed the hallowed "Dr." without having earned it *snerk* the proper and one true way

[jvvw]

That's a higher ratio of PhDs to medical doctors than I'd have expected - it's hard to get a gut feel when the sample of my friends is obviously biased in the former direction. On the other hand, members of the public do tend to assume than Dr means a medical doctor I find, despite that. I had an out-of-hours appointment up in Bedford (so non-local) during one of my pregnancies and was a bit puzzled about the way the GP was talking to me until it occurred to me afterwards to wonder if my title might be on my records somewhere.

[uon]

I feel obliged to point out that when antibiotics say "no boozes", unfortunately THEY REALLY MEAN NO BOOZES. AT ALL. I found this out because the purpose of my life is to serve as a warning to others.

Hope you feel much better soon!

[drdoug]

I am very pleased to have learned this lesson from other people's mistakes.

Hope you feel much better soon!

Thanks. Head clearer this morning at least, which is great.

[artremis]

Urgle!
Very glad you've got the diagnosis and appropriate antibiotics - hope you feel much better soonest.
And i love the insight into the statistical workings of your ill-brain

[vinaigrettegirl]

My GP tells me the codes are "well-read", [too much from the Internet]; "PhD" [may have a clue], and "knowledgeable' [has a clue]. That may just be over this way, of course; I don't know the Expiring Dreams version of NFN, for example.

I'm very impressed both by the quick-and-dirty calculations you do and the rapidity of the results you've had. You wouldn't get that alacrity here. May your head continue to clear, and stay off the Two Hats Way.