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Originally Posted by jman220
But, and here’s the key, aren’t unnecessary antibiotics not a good thing for you? In general they **** up your system. Again, as a biillionaire, I get instantly tested and all the results get analyzed stat, what am I looking at, a few hours turnaround to culture everything? I’m not arguing with the treatment I received, I’m instead pointing out that with unlimited resources I’d probably be treated differently.
To be clear (semantics) cultures generally take 48 hours or longer to result - you're seeing if anything grows out of a specimen you have take, whether blood, urine, throat etc.
Screening tests generally come back in 30 minutes to an hour or so, assuming you're running the test in an onsite lab - and some come back almost immediately, such as urine dip tests. In that case you are looking for a chemical reaction that indicates nitrites are in the urine - since bacteria make them but people can't, a positive reaction is generally an indication that the patient has a UTI. Other tests (strep, RSV, HIV) look for a particular antigen that the bug has on it's surface.
So even if Bezos demands his strep culture results right now, he ain't getting them....
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