If this was just a case of a random patient and their GP, I'd agree with you. But this was a double lung transplant, at the Great Ormond Street Hospital, one of the world's best children's hospitals.

After 9 months of decline: "It was at this point that the patient’s mother brought up the idea of phage therapy. Spencer didn’t know much about it, but there was a hospital microbiologist, Dr. James Soothill, who’d worked on the viruses and agreed to help."

So they had a microbiologist on staff who knew about phage therapy. They had a patient with a life threatening antibiotic resistant infection. It took them 9 months to connect the two, and it only happened because the patient's mother suggested it?

Sorry, but that is just completely messed up.