In July, The BMJ published an analysis article called “The Antibiotic Course has had it’s day” – a provocative title that turned out the garner a lot of debate on our site. The article said that the convention for the length of a course of antibiotics was set by Flemming, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech – “If you use penicillin, use enough!” – and that the evidence base hasn’t moved on since then.

The article has had over 40 substantive responses, both agreeing and vehemently not – and so we thought it worth revisiting that argument, now the dust has settled.

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