This week in the eternal drama that is the My Health Record we were served up a veritable smorgasbord of beat-ups, cave-ins and knee-jerk reactions about the system that would have tested Mr Creosote's enviable staying powers.

There was a story about the whole system crashing under the weight of people rushing to opt out – we have it on good authority that it did no such thing – that was then picked up by other outlets and beaten up within an inch of its life.