Our HMO had hung us out to dry , having invoked the " take her to therapy " prescription for anything they are not interested in finding out about , and besides , every time we took her to the ER they managed to hurt her , and she was n't getting better with the best that the Lyme specialists had to offer . We decided to ramp her down off the antibiotics for a while just to see where she was . Frankly we did n't need expensive alternative treatments . We 'd already done a refi on the house .
According to the above context, answer the following question.
Why does the narrator seem leery of the hospital ?


Their friend was hurt there .