I learnt the hard way how vets can get it wrong when my little 3.5lb girl Hope broke her leg. First the emergencey vet wouldnot ppick up the phone and eventually turned it off. I contacted another vet who also tried to call him but got no reply, he thankfullu agreed to see her and gave her pain-meds until morning giving me the chioce of leaving her with him or going to my own vet in the morning. I stupidly chose the latter. They did the surgery, putting a pin in to stabalise the leg and then put a cast over the surgery site. I didn't know enough to ask any questions and she ended up loosing her leg to gangreen. And no I still never got an awnser as to why my call was egnored.
I also read stories years ago of one vet cutting the beard off some-ones champion skye terrier, and another who speyed a champion dalmation who'd gone in for surgery on a tooth. Recently theres a report of a vet struck off, not because he showed female staff lewd pictures on his phone or because he placed the testical of a dog he'd just neutured in his mouth, but because he tried to buy steriods from a chemists illigally claiming they were for a dog. Seams they can get away with almost anything. |