Yes, I had the same reaction. Altogether it's inspiring and I'm happy to see novel treatments like it when antibacterial therapies are desperately needed. At th

Yes, I had the same reaction. Altogether it's inspiring and I'm happy to see novel treatments like it when antibacterial therapies are desperately needed. At the same time seeing these inequities in the system was disturbing to me. It's not only the special privileges the couple enjoyed -- how they received the treatment and another did not -- it's also how generating some sort of enthusiasm about a research area can require this kind of private string pulling. If one of those researchers had submitted a research grant on phage therapy would it have been approved? I liked the article and am not meaning this as a criticism of it, the couple, the people involved, or the therapy. It's just revealing of structural problems in academics, health care, and society.