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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  I think a good vet welcomes questions, ideas, thoughts, and discussion.
I think a vet who becomes defensive or impatient with questions and patients is really sending you an unintended message about how insecure they are in their knowledge.
As a former nurse, I've always thought that the *most* important component of good health care for yourself, or your pet - is advocacy and involvement in your own health (or pets)....bc I think that propels you toward seeking the best outcome, even if it means you have to move on from certain practitioners. |
100000000% AGREE - if they are confident then they can answer intelligently and if not they are hiding something about their abilities
man i can go on and on on this topic lol
my dd had a bile acid test done then a second one as it was 73.1 then post was 54 and pre both time was 3 so vet wanted me to go get scintigraphy and i freaked so i stayed up all night researching, joined liver shunt yahoo group and went NO WAY am i putting my dog through that since post biles are below 100 - told vet nope she is going on low protein diet and will test in 6 months as she has no symptoms of liver shunt - she test 26 post on last test with jean dodds and he refused to run thyroid panel for me before doing atopica said it was not necessary her thyroid test .78 was fine a year before yet dd lost all the hair on her neck and i said i think her thyroid needs to be checked as she has skin issues and now is losing her hair this year. We argued he refused yet i was willing to pay so the next blood work was done with jean dodds 1 1/2 hrs away and sure enough t4free was .30 she had dropped in half in a year and when i came back he was like oh it usually is lumbar and tail region and i said well i guess dd did not read the text book -- so glad i pursued it as she could have gotten seizures if thyroid gets too low and it dropped in half each year for two years. Now jean does all of our blood work and titers