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Originally Posted by dottiesyrky  Thank you. Yes it is all very confusing, but I think all is now explained in the original Bryce thread. I just felt bad that my comment may have further inflamed the situation. The specialist had made the decision and like it or not we should accept it and pray for success. Irrespective of how the situation occurred or the morals of it. Sometimes things happen and have to be addressed, and are not as we would wish. In the end all went well and Bryce has learned a lot!! |
Thank God this is NOT a thought process that is blindly accepted by individuals that have actually experienced situations that have in many cases, been written off by vets...even speialists. The major difference here was this particular poster had no knowledge base or experience to draw from. When an individual has their own experiences and a working knowledge base enriched by actual outcomes to draw from, such individuals are ALWAYS questioning and researching and collecting input from all sources....unlike lemmings, that blindly rush forward, following the one in front of them, accepting without question their pre-ordained outcome. There were people with experience in this type of situation.....My reproductive specialist would have opted for termination, taking in the TOTAL picture...but if I was telling her I was going to use this lady as a breeder, well, of course you cant spay to terminate the pregnancy.....you do exactly what was done. Years ago, we had a nurse that gave a patient a fatal dose of a medication. How could she do that??? Because a cardiac specialist wrote the order, and when she asked him if he really meant to give.......he cut her off, she was intimidated, stopped her question, gave what the "specialist" ordered her to give and killed the patient. If it had been a nurse with experience, she would have made sure that dr was aware of his mistake, and she would have gotten another opinion, or just refused to do what she was told to do, because she knew it was wrong. At the inquisition, her excuse "the doctor told me to give it so I did" was unacceptable....she lost her license, she lost her job, a patient died, the hospital paid millions of dollars to a devastated family, and the "specialist" was cautioned to be sure his descimals are in the right place. Thank God for people that question vets and doctors, even specialists.
When thinking people give up the right to question, even "specialist", lives will be lost.