We're Running Out of Antibiotics

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10. he did not state or even suggest that patients become antibiotic resistant.

I'm very sorry for what your daughter is experiencing, but the quote does not imply that patients are resistant. It states that in their particular situations, antibiotics are irrelevent.

Personally, I've never heard of a doctor or other medical professional confusing the patient with the microbe regarding antibiotic resistance. When my lab sends sensitivity results, as far as I can determine everybody understands that the bacteria that was cultured is the one that is sensitive or resistant to the listed antibiotics.

In any event, the exact quote was in direct reference to living in a post-antibiotic world. It was in specific reference to living in a world where anti-biotics are irrelevent.:

"In fact, for some patients and some microbes, we are already there.”

Where are we? In a post-antibiotic world

IOW, some microbes are already resistant to all antibiotics, and patients infected with those microbes, along with the microbes that infect them, are already experiencing a 'post-antibiotic' world.

Or, some patients and microbes are already living in a post-antibiotic world.

Nothing in that statement implies patient resistance to antibiotics. It is about living in a world where antibiotics are no longer effective.