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vets take advantage of grief
In two cases, 4 months apart, two different vets: both estimated or said
about $400 to examine, perform blood work, x-rays and to keep cat until morning. When cat was picked up, both vest presented bills for $1200. The 1st one gave in little and was vary arrogant with weak justification, the 2nd vet, after my complaint, reduced the bill to $440. It is my conclusion, that a business practice of vets is to lure customer in, then prey on their emotions to milk the maximum cash. The cases above do not include the additional vet highly recommended treatments, like blood transfusion, daily dialysis etc. which were highly beyond our means. I feel the vet industry is ripe for some sort of control as we have seen in the human medical industry and maybe a better and more appropriate example is the rules and conditions mortuaries now have to operate under. That business in the past, like vets today, manipulated and influenced those who were in grief, feigning shock that you wouldn't want to have the best money can buy for your loved ones. I am left with an extremely fowl taste of the vet industry and I hope someday reforms as seen by mortuary and medical industry can become more prevalent from state to state for vetinary. It is shameful and disgusting the way vets feed on human emotion to line their pockets. |
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"jesseH" wrote in message news:xg_bc.10774$zc1.223@okepread03... In two cases, 4 months apart, two different vets: both estimated or said about $400 to examine, perform blood work, x-rays and to keep cat until morning. When cat was picked up, both vest presented bills for $1200. The 1st one gave in little and was vary arrogant with weak justification, the 2nd vet, after my complaint, reduced the bill to $440. It is my conclusion, that a business practice of vets is to lure customer in, then prey on their emotions to milk the maximum cash. The cases above do not include the additional vet highly recommended treatments, like blood transfusion, daily dialysis etc. which were highly beyond our means. I feel the vet industry is ripe for some sort of control as we have seen in the human medical industry and maybe a better and more appropriate example is the rules and conditions mortuaries now have to operate under. That business in the past, like vets today, manipulated and influenced those who were in grief, feigning shock that you wouldn't want to have the best money can buy for your loved ones. I am left with an extremely fowl taste of the vet industry and I hope someday reforms as seen by mortuary and medical industry can become more prevalent from state to state for vetinary. It is shameful and disgusting the way vets feed on human emotion to line their pockets. Unfortunately you really do get ripped off in the USA. My cat had an accident last year, needed a drip, blood tests, antibiotics, painkillers etc and he was in kept in for 4 nights. The cost was £96 which is about $180!! Vaccinations cost around £28 ($50) a year , we don't have rabies so no shots for that, and we don't have some of the parasites that you do so just twice yearly worming at about £10 a year and that's it. |
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"jesseH" wrote in message news:xg_bc.10774$zc1.223@okepread03... In two cases, 4 months apart, two different vets: both estimated or said about $400 to examine, perform blood work, x-rays and to keep cat until morning. When cat was picked up, both vest presented bills for $1200. The 1st one gave in little and was vary arrogant with weak justification, the 2nd vet, after my complaint, reduced the bill to $440. It is my conclusion, that a business practice of vets is to lure customer in, then prey on their emotions to milk the maximum cash. The cases above do not include the additional vet highly recommended treatments, like blood transfusion, daily dialysis etc. which were highly beyond our means. I feel the vet industry is ripe for some sort of control as we have seen in the human medical industry and maybe a better and more appropriate example is the rules and conditions mortuaries now have to operate under. That business in the past, like vets today, manipulated and influenced those who were in grief, feigning shock that you wouldn't want to have the best money can buy for your loved ones. I am left with an extremely fowl taste of the vet industry and I hope someday reforms as seen by mortuary and medical industry can become more prevalent from state to state for vetinary. It is shameful and disgusting the way vets feed on human emotion to line their pockets. Unfortunately you really do get ripped off in the USA. My cat had an accident last year, needed a drip, blood tests, antibiotics, painkillers etc and he was in kept in for 4 nights. The cost was £96 which is about $180!! Vaccinations cost around £28 ($50) a year , we don't have rabies so no shots for that, and we don't have some of the parasites that you do so just twice yearly worming at about £10 a year and that's it. |
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I've had similar experiences with vets. I hate to have to make life and death decisions based on money, but it does sometimes play into the calculations. The last vet I had, had gone through much of my funds in diagnosing and treating my Maxie, to no avail. I paid him every single dollar, on the day of the treatments; albeit, with some bitching and haggling. On the day I euthanized Maxie, I was in the treatment room with him and my brother saying a very tearful and heartbroken goodbye to my friend and companion of 17 years. The vet sent in his assistant to ask me for my credit card, at that moment. Needless to say I have found a new vet and will never go back to that sonofabitch. The nerve of him. The funny thing is, he was a very skilled vet. |
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I've had similar experiences with vets. I hate to have to make life and death decisions based on money, but it does sometimes play into the calculations. The last vet I had, had gone through much of my funds in diagnosing and treating my Maxie, to no avail. I paid him every single dollar, on the day of the treatments; albeit, with some bitching and haggling. On the day I euthanized Maxie, I was in the treatment room with him and my brother saying a very tearful and heartbroken goodbye to my friend and companion of 17 years. The vet sent in his assistant to ask me for my credit card, at that moment. Needless to say I have found a new vet and will never go back to that sonofabitch. The nerve of him. The funny thing is, he was a very skilled vet. |
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Same thing happened to me. It didn't bother me so much, business is
business, but it seemed quite tactless. -- Peace, Pen -- Pawbreakers - The Candy for Cats! http://www.pawbreakers.com "GovtLawyer" wrote in message ... snip I've had similar experiences with vets. I hate to have to make life and death decisions based on money, but it does sometimes play into the calculations. The last vet I had, had gone through much of my funds in diagnosing and treating my Maxie, to no avail. I paid him every single dollar, on the day of the treatments; albeit, with some bitching and haggling. On the day I euthanized Maxie, I was in the treatment room with him and my brother saying a very tearful and heartbroken goodbye to my friend and companion of 17 years. The vet sent in his assistant to ask me for my credit card, at that moment. Needless to say I have found a new vet and will never go back to that sonofabitch. The nerve of him. The funny thing is, he was a very skilled vet. |
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Same thing happened to me. It didn't bother me so much, business is
business, but it seemed quite tactless. -- Peace, Pen -- Pawbreakers - The Candy for Cats! http://www.pawbreakers.com "GovtLawyer" wrote in message ... snip I've had similar experiences with vets. I hate to have to make life and death decisions based on money, but it does sometimes play into the calculations. The last vet I had, had gone through much of my funds in diagnosing and treating my Maxie, to no avail. I paid him every single dollar, on the day of the treatments; albeit, with some bitching and haggling. On the day I euthanized Maxie, I was in the treatment room with him and my brother saying a very tearful and heartbroken goodbye to my friend and companion of 17 years. The vet sent in his assistant to ask me for my credit card, at that moment. Needless to say I have found a new vet and will never go back to that sonofabitch. The nerve of him. The funny thing is, he was a very skilled vet. |
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