medical mystery madmen

Here we had an amusing story. While the doctors who ended up treating Rudy had "experimented" on him there was no risk. The true madness of the story are the doctors that treated Rudy until he was found/recommended to the doctor at the NIH. He is repeatedly given pills and antibiotics with no apparent reasoning behind the medication. Even with the cold or flu or even hepatitis the antibiotics would be completely ineffective. Follow that with misdiagnosing a tumor by... pretending it was there? The absolute horror of this light-hearted tale is the malpractice leading to Rudy's productive treatment. Forget about the experimenting with a harmless metal supplement, are people misdiagnosed and mistreated like Rudy was before going to the NIH?