{"id":949697,"date":"2026-11-02T09:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949697\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T09:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:26:12","slug":"a-third-of-patients-lie-to-doctors-to-get-antibiotics-jama-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949697\/","title":{"rendered":"A third of patients lie to doctors to get antibiotics, JAMA study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 30% of patients say they have lied to obtain antibiotics from their doctor, with some apparently believing antibiotic resistance is a hoax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The results come from a US study, which surveyed 959 adults with an average age of 50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some 28% admitted they misrepresented their symptoms, such as claiming a cough had lasted two weeks when it had lasted just one or saying they had a fever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coughs and sore throats were the most commonly misrepresented, cited by two-thirds of patients who lied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 30% of patients say they have lied to obtain antibiotics from their doctor, with some apparently believing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,137],"class_list":["post-949697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}