answer:I had no idea about your daughter’s illness. It sounds terrible, but it’s wonderful to hear she might’ve made a break-through. I have a great deal of respect for most doctors but yes, I have dealt with incompetent ones and it nearly cost me my life. When I was 17 I was on IV nutrition for 2 months due to my Crohn’s disease. I had a large tube in my brachial artery which extended into my heart. It was hooked up to a 2 liter bag of liquid nutrients that I carried around like a backpack. I had also recently started a new hardcore intravenous immunosuppressant drug for my Crohn’s. I had been really horribly ill for about 4 months at this point, but the new drug was starting to get things under control. I had begun getting out of bed and walking around the neighborhood and was getting my strength back. In mid June I started feeling sore all over. It was getting progressively worse and my parents and I got worried enough to go to the local ER. Very small local hospital. The doctors there didn’t do any tests, they only talked to me. They decided my soreness was probably either a side effect of my new medication or caused by my resuming physical activity after having been bedridden for so long, or some combination thereof. They sent me home. Another day or two passes – I don’t really remember the timeline that well anymore – and I am in severe pain. I cannot walk and my mom is pushing me around the house in her rolling office chair. We go to another ER farther away at a larger hospital for a second opinion. They take a blood culture and admit me overnight. I wake up the next morning shivering uncontrollably. I’m pushing my call button, my mom is in the doorway looking for a nurse, and at the same time, a doctor is running down the hall to my room because she has just looked at my blood culture and some nasty shit grew on it overnight. Next thing I know there are 14 doctors and nurses in my room, and they are putting IV’s in my ankles because all the veins in my arms are already taken up. A nurse is pumping the biggest syringe of saline I’ve ever seen in my life into me just to keep my blood pressure artificially elevated, because it has plummeted and I’m in danger of organ failure. I am experiencing septic shock. My catheter for my nutrition has been infected for about a week now. I was septic when the doctors at the first ER sent me away. I don’t recall if my parents ever contacted anyone from the first hospital to let them know of the very nearly fatal mistake they made by sending me away without doing tests. Probably they didn’t. Probably they still don’t know.