It is sad, the way they take advantage of a peson in distress. It isn't only vets. I had a dentist do the same thing. I had lost the filling out of a tooth, and the tooth was bad anyway. I went to a dentist, that would get me in immediately. he charged me $90 to tell me that I would need to go to an oral surgeon. they sent me there. He charged me $209, just to pull a tooth that he said was loose anyway. No oral surgery no ansthetic except novocain, just pulled the tooth.
Years before that My son had a baby tooth that had not come out, and they said the permanent tooth was lying sideways in the gum. they wanted to put some sort of apparatus on it that would connect to the tooth that was lying down, blah blah blah. I told them I couldn't afford that and asked couldn't they just pull it and then see what happens. Oh no they couldn't do that blah blah blah. they had me in tears before I left. Made me feel like a bad mother because I couldn't afford to do that.
Within a year, the baby tooth fell out and the permanent tooth came in just fine.
In my opinion the medical profession can be just as unethical as car repairmen. |