@jessed Just goes to show you that sometimes medical professionals come up with their own philosophy of how to handle things, and can differ from one professional to another and probably not with good common sense, sometimes.
If one bleeds you give it time to heal and stop sending the saline into our lungs to help to cause coughing and possible irritation to the lungs with both.
My belief is that many of our local doctors do not have the time to keep up with all the learnings that get published each day, month, year etc. and are not up to date on matters from those who do research, studies and concentration on one type of Chronic illness, such as Bronchiectasis to understand all that needs to be done, not done, followed etc. etc.
Again, glad you are reading some of the threads here.
Hope you are able to give thought to finding a Center of Excellence for you to get second opinions with all.
Barbara