Money Grabbing Vet!!!

maxfactor_3

I can imagine the OP is fed up of this thread already!.
Daisy is now on the mend and there,s nothing to prove to anyone.
How can you misinterpret I,ll give you £60 now and the rest later.
You,d have to be thick.
I can only imagine the vet is here now because he,s run out of Horlicks.
Why dont you go round and give him some tea and sympathy if you feel so strongly?.
I,ve never sorted money out with a vet,yes he tells you how much it is but it should have been sorted out with the receptionist afterwards!.
The issue was the dog had a broken leg and was in pain and was refused treatment clearly.The argument is going nowhere.
clearly the vet is in denial and coming on here is completelu un professional and is obviously taking the whole sorry affair very personally.

superscaper

maxfactor wrote: »

The issue was the dog had a broken leg and was in pain and was refused treatment clearly.The argument is going nowhere.
clearly the vet is in denial and coming on here is completelu un professional and is obviously taking the whole sorry affair very personally.

I think it's far from clear. Noone here knows what actually happened. Again the vet has explicitly said he did not refuse treatment so the fact you're simply taking one person's word over another does not make it "clear". I don't know which "version" is true but I wouldn't presume to know. And as if the vet (whether in the right or wrong) taking it personally is somehow unusual? I think it would be a very strange person who didn't. I don't see why responding to specific allegations against them on the forum is unprofessional. I wish more people did that so you get a more balanced view of what happened.

maxfactor_3

I just read all of the OPs posts.They have nothing to prove.
Why,s the vet here now after all this time?
He had a chance to put things right after the incident got reported.
He said his piece and the matter is over,whats he got to prove to us!.
Is he just trying to convince himself he did the right thing.
Daisy,s fine and I got more important things to do right now.

superscaper

maxfactor wrote: »

I just read all of the OPs posts.They have nothing to prove.
Why,s the vet here now after all this time?
He had a chance to put things right after the incident got reported.
He said his piece and the matter is over,whats he got to prove to us!.
Is he just trying to convince himself he did the right thing.
Daisy,s fine and I got more important things to do right now.

I think you're missing the point. If you'd read my posts you'll see I've not accused anyone of deliberately lying or even implied that they did. Just that the very fact that the OP is angry leads to an unobjective view of what happened. There's nothing here that can be stated as fact.

When you end up paraphrasing yourself in trying to recollect something (especially when it's highly emotional and stressful) it's easy to then get it taken out of the original context from what was actually said and how the original phrasing may have been interpreted. I'm only trying to be objective and simply taking one person's word as gospel over another just because that person was the OP clearly isn't.

As far as I can tell the vet hasn't tried to prove anything other than put across what they thought happened. Which is exactly what the OP has done. From what I can see they left it until the case was closed before posting on here. Yet you've accused them of being unprofessional for posting while at the same time questioning why it took them so long to post, it seems you're desperate to demonise them no matter what they do in response to this thread. We've got two different stories and attacking the author of one of them just because they didn't post theirs first is quite frankly ridiculous. I mean you don't know what happened because you weren't there and yet you seem to be able to make a completely iron clad judgement about what happened as fact. We don't even know for a fact that the flip side is the vet for that matter.

joan_brennan

your dog looks so pretty, hope she gets well soon. Don't get me started on vets... "let the rant begin" I have a dog with epilepsy and no way can i get a vet to just give me a repeat prescription. I have changed vets three times in the last 10 years because they insist he has a check up (£50 +) before he can have a prescription . i have never had a fat dog in my life I clean up poo so I know if he is not "Normal" He sleeps in the bed room ( in his own bed) and i work from home. If he was "not right " i would know about it and would not hesitate to take him to the vet. Even knowing all this they still make a fortune from these pretend check ups. Listen to his heart , take his temperature check for dehydration ( pick up his skin ) .... I don't know any human with epilepsy that is checked every three months aarrrrgggghhhh

the_flip_side

arrhhhhh...prescriptions, another area of contention although to be fair most people see the benefit in regular check ups if their pet is on daily medication. with regards to epilepsy, i assume either epiphen or KBr or prehaps both. firstly it is a legal requirement for periodic check ups when dispensing or writing prescriptions for POM's. interestingly the op was the first to start quoting the law in his attempt to use it against me. what if for example the medication started to be ineffective resulting in the reoccurence of seizures or maybe even became toxic, if you were to point the finger, who would it be pointed at? how often a check up is required depends to a degree on how stable the condition is and diseases like epilepsy can be progressive. i also like to get 1 to 2 blood tests annually to ensure phenobarbitone levels are within the normal range. each animal is an individual and getting it right does require some skill. dose rates can be dynamic. i regularly write repeat prescriptions and will dispense enough medication for a least one month, some times more especially if the case is well known to me. to be honest changing vets probably hasn't helped your cause too much. anyway some how i feel this isn't going to make to much difference to how you feel about vets.

blessings3

Joan_brennan wrote: »

your dog looks so pretty, hope she gets well soon. Don't get me started on vets... "let the rant begin" I have a dog with epilepsy and no way can I get a vet to just give me a repeat prescription. I have changed vets three times in the last 10 years because they insist he has a check up (£50 +) before he can have a prescription . i have never had a fat dog in my life I clean up poo so I know if he is not "Normal" He sleeps in the bed room ( in his own bed) and i work from home. If he was "not right " i would know about it and would not hesitate to take him to the vet. Even knowing all this they still make a fortune from these pretend check ups. Listen to his heart , take his temperature check for dehydration ( pick up his skin ) .... I don't know any human with epilepsy that is checked every three months aarrrrgggghhhh

Joan I'm not trying to be patronising but vets prescribe under very similar sometimes more rigorous conditions than Doctors - you may find that the examination is a prerequist for the drug. (Depends which drug is prescribed!)

Re People - people can ring their doctors if they don’t feel right and tend to be able to manage their epilepsy as they can recognise warning signs and triggers - Dogs are clever but never remember the vet’s number

Also to be honest if they just gave you a long term repeat prescription and your dog became ill, who would you blame/sue/complain to professional body about? You personally might not but I think there is a percentage probably quite a high one of people who would.

re Daisy - My heart says treat and then sort the payment out / my head says get pet insurance or a credit card especially if you have that many pets as something was bound to crop up illness/accident and being self employed myself I always have plans for emergencies preferably ones with 0% interest for as long as possible

blessings3

Oh you got in there before me flip side didn't you

the_flip_side

my heart also tells me to treat first, money later, my employer tells me just how big our bad debt problem really is,

blessings3

I think the post about vets not liking animals puzzles me the most