Dear Eliana:

Dysfunction, incompetence is widespread, unfortunately. And so, you know to not take what doctors tell you in that particular ER as The Truth, not without concrete evidence. It is a good idea to always evaluate what people say, be it non doctors and doctors.

Mentioning non doctors, regarding this friend of yours- I would challenge the word “friend” you used, the word in the title of your thread, “Lost Another friend“-

She was not a friend, there was no friendship, only an acquaintance.

anita