I looked at your profile and saw Aberdeen General Hospital and got worried that this had happened in Scotland ! Sorry about your illness but I am relieved it all happened across the pond! As much as we complain about the NHS I am sure there’s no GP in the UK who would not send you for an X-ray in presenting with the symptoms of pneumonia. The symptoms alone would have had a GP prescribing an antibiotic before the X-ray because any lung infection is treated immediately with one. If the doctor was concerned enough they may have sent you straight to hospital after listening to your breathing by stethoscope, and if it was confirmed at hospital that it was pneumonia you should have been put on an antibiotic drip. This is medical negligence in my opinion and 4 antibiotic tablets are worse than taking none at all for clearing an infection, I am not a doctor but have medics in the family, also have a close friend who has had pneumonia several times.

If the infection is gone why the antibiotics?

I was trying to follow your story. They did a CT and MRI? There would be no need for a CXR. The other exams are superior. When you mentioned you were prescribed only four antibiotics, that’s not a correct statement. You were given a full course of one kind of antibiotics. Most likely azithromycin( broad spectrum antibiotic and prescribed all the time for pneumonia). Your own doctors opinion that it wasn’t his first choice of antibiotic is just that.. his opinion. He is free to switch it. It happens all the time. It doesn’t mean that there was an error.

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