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Old February 3rd 04, 10:32 PM
Teddy
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I brought Bear's x-rays home a few days ago. The vets wife called
yesterday and demanded I bring them right back. She said someone would
come by there and check their x-rays and want to know where they were.
Does this make sense? I didn't intend to keep them but now I'm curious.
I just got their bill for $164. She didn't even say anything about my
Bear dying and I don't even feel like leaving the house.

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Old February 4th 04, 01:15 AM
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I'm not a lawyer but I would think that the x-rays are your property
since you paid for them.


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Old February 4th 04, 01:15 AM
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I'm not a lawyer but I would think that the x-rays are your property
since you paid for them.


-MIKE

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Old February 4th 04, 02:24 AM
Mary
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I brought Bear's x-rays home a few days ago. The vets wife called
yesterday and demanded I bring them right back. She said someone would
come by there and check their x-rays and want to know where they were.
Does this make sense? I didn't intend to keep them but now I'm curious.
I just got their bill for $164. She didn't even say anything about my
Bear dying and I don't even feel like leaving the house.

You own the xrays. You don't have to give them back. As Bear is dead, what
would be the point. Is there something on the xray that might make it seem like
it was the vet's fault? I always ask for and keep xrays.
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Old February 4th 04, 02:24 AM
Mary
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I brought Bear's x-rays home a few days ago. The vets wife called
yesterday and demanded I bring them right back. She said someone would
come by there and check their x-rays and want to know where they were.
Does this make sense? I didn't intend to keep them but now I'm curious.
I just got their bill for $164. She didn't even say anything about my
Bear dying and I don't even feel like leaving the house.

You own the xrays. You don't have to give them back. As Bear is dead, what
would be the point. Is there something on the xray that might make it seem like
it was the vet's fault? I always ask for and keep xrays.
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Old February 4th 04, 02:28 AM
Larry Silkaitis
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From my experience the vet owns the x-rays. It is like for most
photographers where they own the negatives.

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I'm not a lawyer but I would think that the x-rays are your property
since you paid for them.


-MIKE



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Old February 4th 04, 02:28 AM
Larry Silkaitis
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From my experience the vet owns the x-rays. It is like for most
photographers where they own the negatives.

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Larry
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I'm not a lawyer but I would think that the x-rays are your property
since you paid for them.


-MIKE



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Old February 4th 04, 02:35 AM
Cheryl
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Teddy wrote in on 03
Feb 2004:

I brought Bear's x-rays home a few days ago. The vets wife called
yesterday and demanded I bring them right back. She said someone would
come by there and check their x-rays and want to know where they were.
Does this make sense? I didn't intend to keep them but now I'm curious.
I just got their bill for $164. She didn't even say anything about my
Bear dying and I don't even feel like leaving the house.


Interesting. I don't know how they regulate that stuff but I do know that
when one of my cats was referred to a specialist and I had to bring copies
of his records, the xrays could only be "borrowed" and I had to leave a
refundable deposit to take them out of their office. That doesn't excuse
the bedside manner of the vets wife. I'm sorry about Bear.

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Old February 4th 04, 02:35 AM
Cheryl
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Teddy wrote in on 03
Feb 2004:

I brought Bear's x-rays home a few days ago. The vets wife called
yesterday and demanded I bring them right back. She said someone would
come by there and check their x-rays and want to know where they were.
Does this make sense? I didn't intend to keep them but now I'm curious.
I just got their bill for $164. She didn't even say anything about my
Bear dying and I don't even feel like leaving the house.


Interesting. I don't know how they regulate that stuff but I do know that
when one of my cats was referred to a specialist and I had to bring copies
of his records, the xrays could only be "borrowed" and I had to leave a
refundable deposit to take them out of their office. That doesn't excuse
the bedside manner of the vets wife. I'm sorry about Bear.

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Cheryl

Trapped like rats. In a chia-pet.
MIB II
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Old February 4th 04, 05:14 AM
Sherry
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From my experience the vet owns the x-rays. It is like for most
photographers where they own the negatives.

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Larry


That's really odd. I've taken x-rays of my own out of the doctor's office to
take to specialists and they just give them to me.
Besides, the vet is not going to need them.
Old x-rays are sometimes recycled for silver content, but that would be a
pretty petty reason to want them back. Other than that, it sounds like a power
struggle on the part of the vet's office. I am horrified that no expression of
sympathy was made to the OP by the vet.
Sherry
 




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