Your remark, "...It's scary that people are getting so many conflicting opinions from their docs. It makes me wonder about mine..." resonates with a lot of us.
What I THINK I have learned after 7 years with Bronchiectasis and MANY hours on Mayo Connect is that the real issue is that Bronchiectasis not a single condition like a broken leg, with an obvious solution.
Instead, it is a condition that can vary in severity and features, and the lungs where it resides can have many other issues as well - scarring from previous infection, asthma, COPD, Cystic Fibrosis, Emphysema... Then there is the range of infections that can afflict our lungs - NTM, pneumonia, Pseudomonas, yeast and fungal invasions.
To make things even more complicated, many of these conditions can change over time, as can the symptoms, coughing, shortness of breath, weight loss, fatigue - or none of the above. Even diagnostic images can vary based on positioning of the patient, what the physician's order asked them to focus on, and the quality of the images captured.
Finally, Bronchiectasis is rare, and the infections even more so. That means pulmonologists in general are not familiar with it, and often don't even recognize it at first. And as patients, we have been taught to trust our doctors, not question them So we often get pretty far "down the road" in our treatment before we realize we need something different.

One of the blessings of Mayo Connect is that we get to communicate with others who have the same issues, learning from each other. We are fortunate that there is now a huge push to identify and publicize centers that specialize in helping us manage our disease.
I have been fortunate to always have pulmonologists who were familiar with Bronchiectasis, even though sometimes we disagreed on methods, I received good care. It always makes me sad when people are obviously struggling with the quality of their care, and it is hard to know how to address this because in many parts of the country, choices are very limited.

Do you feel your doctors are handling your treatment well?