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Originally Posted by LordRanger  Sadly, I think posting on these forums here to try and find useful help is a viable alternative. One can post legal disclaimers about "See your doctor" all day long, but in reality when the doctors just prescribe a few tests, punt the problem till later, and do nothing to actually treat your dog's problem, then...maybe our free, amateur advice based on past experience of actually living with dogs who have these problems trumps their $250 lab work and 5-minute analysis of it.
I saw the same situation happen with human doctors. Take Covid: someone with no health insurance gets really sick, so naturally what are you supposed to do? See the doctor. The doctor says it's covid, but it's not serious, so they send you home. That will be $150. The sheriff gets notified that you are under quarantine, your freedom gets taken away for 10 days. That's beautiful, but you went to see the doctor to get treatment for YOU. And they did nothing to treat YOU. If you're so worried about everyone else, then everyone else can foot the $150. |
I know, they won't give any diagnosis without doing like zillion of tests/analysis. We do them all and it's not just the matter of money, it's also the poor dog being dragged and poked everywhere, but they still fail to actually treat the problem. At the end of the day, it's "he is an old dog" ....?