Speaking as a person who went to doctors all my life and now do my best to avoid them even if it means my demise..

The doctors have to test what level your epilepsy is, regardless if it seems retarded, they have to see (*points up to duality*) what triggers it. The strobe prolly has different levels and each level determins what the severity your epilepsy ranks on. It's not that they didn't know what they were doing (because there most likely was a nuerologist in the room and not just idiotic nurses) it's the fact that you do have a disorder that -can- change do another level. One day a fast strobe may trigger it, the next a strobe flashing every 2 seconds can trigger it.

From my own experience of doctors doing -everything- to see what's going on, I had caught Mono and had it for about 6 months (Yay crappy immune system~) it took 5 blood tests and a bruised arm that I couldn't move for a while with out pain setting in to realize EVERY TIME IT SAID NEGATIVE IT WAS A -FALSE- NEGATIVE. But they kept testing to make sure because they didn't want to tell me I had mono with out a positive in my blood work. They have to check -every- possible venture to get the best diagnoses.

Look at it this way, if you have a seizure in the doctors office, how bad can it be, You're already at the doctors!