A patient comes in presenting signs of pain when swallowing,…

A patient comes in presenting signs of pain when swallowing, slight fever, red and swollen tonsils.  The health care professional believes it may be strep throat, takes a throat swab of the patient and performs a Rapid Strep Test.  The patient ask for the swab to be sent out to a lab so that it can be cultured on a blood agar plate to see if Beta hemolysis is produced.  The doctor responds by saying that the Rapid Strep Test is as reliable as a culture.  Is the the statement that the doctor made true or false?