Why pharmacists are not capable of diagnosing 'simple' UTIs
6th May 2019
The problem for the layperson or politician trying to understand the complex task of diagnosing, investigating and appropriately treating a urinary tract infection is that the outcome in their mind is simple — antibiotics or no antibiotics.
Perhaps that’s why pharmacists in Queensland are to be allowed to write antibiotic scripts for UTI under a state government-funded trial.
But coming to this apparently simple binary outcome of antibiotic or not is like making the decision to hit a big red ‘fire the missiles’ button or not.
