An elderly gentleman is admitted to the hospital with an MRSA infection. It is soon discovered that the Staphylococcus is resistant to many different antibiotics. Unfortunately, this is discovered only

An elderly gentleman is admitted to the hospital with an MRSA infection.  It is soon discovered that the Staphylococcus is resistant to many different antibiotics.  Unfortunately, this is discovered only after he is given a usual treatment regimen which is interrupted at the third dose to start him on some Vancomycin.  Once the Vancomycin is finished, the gentleman develops a UTI (urinary tract infection) to which he is treated for.  Having put the gentleman on a usual antibiotic to treat the UTI, the same scenario plays out and the initial antibiotic is stopped, and he is put on one that will treat the resistant bacteria.