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Originally Posted by dwerten  yep had I not taken dex to internal medicine specialist he would be dead. Vet told me he had a tumor manifesting in his pancreas at two years old. Basically he is going to die. I said not if i can help it - get all his records I am picking him up in an hour. UH she was wrong no tumor and I had to pay for another 400.00 ultrasound as they would not accept her ultrasound guys results. She is no longer in business as sold her practice. She did not even know the specialty hospital in the county. I had to find it out on my own to save my dog. 4 years later Dex is doing GREAT. If i left him under her care I believe he would be DEAD. |
oh and you will love this one. The guy who bought her practice called me saying I could bring my dogs in for a free vet visit - probably bc he saw i spent $3500 with this woman before i got Dex to specialist. He was very nice and I told him straight up do you know your stuff bc I am now much more knowledgeable than i was back then and need someone who is competent to care for my dogs with health issues. She also gave my dog too high a dose of atopica for dd and i questioned it called mfg and she was wrong that was the final straw as i still gave her the benefit of the doubt with the whole dex thing as i was stupid back then. I told him here is what is going on with my dogs and I now deal mostly with specialists and rattled everything going on and we had a great conversation and he said dang you probably know more than me after talking to you wow. He mentioned he just got back from a seminar on using fat from dog to put in joints for thinks like hip and knees which costs about 3k which I was aware of as it was a year ago when dd hurt her leg that i had found this out. At least he was furthering his education which was impressive. I just told him straight up I am super skeptical now and want to know I am dealing with someone that knows there stuff now. He apologized for all I had been through and said she is no longer there and he is the owner now and he would examine dd leg for free back then. I said I will have to think about it as i prefer ortho.
The biggest thing is not the money it is the fact that I now have no TRUST. This is the scary place to be when your dog is sick and you have no one you can TRUST. Luckily there are specialists I trust 100% and will just go to them. But not everyone can afford that so I totally get where you are coming from OP.