Did a doctor ever give you a new drug that made you worse when the old drug always worked?

Did a doctor ever give you a new drug that made you worse when the old drug always worked?
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Stepped on a nail, the doctor was trying out Erythromyacin instead of penicillin. I woke up the next morning vomitting continously. No pauses at all. He called it a minor gastric upset.
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