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vets take advantage
In two cases, 4 months apart, two different vets:
both estimated or said about $400 to examine, 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 $440. It is my conclusion, that a business practice of vets is to lure customer in, then prey on their emotions to milk the maximum cash. The cases above do not include the additional vet highly recommended treatments, like blood transfusion, daily dialysis etc. which were highly beyond our means. I feel the vet industry is ripe for some sort of control as we have seen in the human medical industry and maybe a better and more appropriate example is the rules and conditions mortuaries now have to operate under. That business in the past, like vets today, manipulated and influenced those who were in grief, feigning shock that you wouldn't want to have the best money can buy for your loved ones. I am left with an extremely fowl taste of the vet industry and I hope someday reforms as seen by mortuary and medical industry can become more prevalent from state to state for vetinary. It is shameful and disgusting the way vets feed on human emotion to line their pockets. |
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"jesseH" wrote in message news:Lf_bc.10765$zc1.8928@okepread03... In two cases, 4 months apart, two different vets: both estimated or said about $400 to examine, 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 $440. It is my conclusion, that a business practice of vets is to lure customer in, then prey on their emotions to milk the maximum cash. The cases above do not include the additional vet highly recommended treatments, like blood transfusion, daily dialysis etc. which were highly beyond our means. I feel the vet industry is ripe for some sort of control as we have seen in the human medical industry and maybe a better and more appropriate example is the rules and conditions mortuaries now have to operate under. That business in the past, like vets today, manipulated and influenced those who were in grief, feigning shock that you wouldn't want to have the best money can buy for your loved ones. I am left with an extremely fowl taste of the vet industry and I hope someday reforms as seen by mortuary and medical industry can become more prevalent from state to state for vetinary. It is shameful and disgusting the way vets feed on human emotion to line their pockets. So Dan, aka quilterhusband, aka Jesse H., you are saying that you are having your cat put down due to the cost of the treatment, exactly as I thought. I, too am left with an extremely fowl taste. |
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"jesseH" wrote in message news:Lf_bc.10765$zc1.8928@okepread03... In two cases, 4 months apart, two different vets: both estimated or said about $400 to examine, 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 $440. It is my conclusion, that a business practice of vets is to lure customer in, then prey on their emotions to milk the maximum cash. The cases above do not include the additional vet highly recommended treatments, like blood transfusion, daily dialysis etc. which were highly beyond our means. I feel the vet industry is ripe for some sort of control as we have seen in the human medical industry and maybe a better and more appropriate example is the rules and conditions mortuaries now have to operate under. That business in the past, like vets today, manipulated and influenced those who were in grief, feigning shock that you wouldn't want to have the best money can buy for your loved ones. I am left with an extremely fowl taste of the vet industry and I hope someday reforms as seen by mortuary and medical industry can become more prevalent from state to state for vetinary. It is shameful and disgusting the way vets feed on human emotion to line their pockets. So Dan, aka quilterhusband, aka Jesse H., you are saying that you are having your cat put down due to the cost of the treatment, exactly as I thought. I, too am left with an extremely fowl taste. |
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"jesseH" wrote in message news:Lf_bc.10765$zc1.8928@okepread03... In two cases, 4 months apart, two different vets: both estimated or said about $400 to examine, blood work, x-rays and to keep cat until morning. How come at my vet the same thing was under $200? When cat was picked up, both vest presented bills for $1200. You are lying again, you sack of sh*t. You never took this sweet old cat to the vet at all, did you? And it was your fault she got out where she could be hurt. |
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"jesseH" wrote in message news:Lf_bc.10765$zc1.8928@okepread03... In two cases, 4 months apart, two different vets: both estimated or said about $400 to examine, blood work, x-rays and to keep cat until morning. How come at my vet the same thing was under $200? When cat was picked up, both vest presented bills for $1200. You are lying again, you sack of sh*t. You never took this sweet old cat to the vet at all, did you? And it was your fault she got out where she could be hurt. |
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"Diane L. Schirf" wrote in message link.net... In article Lf_bc.10765$zc1.8928@okepread03, "jesseH" wrote: From: "jesseH" Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav Subject: vets take advantage Lines: 25 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Lf_bc.10765$zc1.8928@okepread03 Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:33:56 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.228.72.34 X-Complaints-To: Interesting that AOL places Cox.net headers and uses MSOE . . . -- I'm kind of hoping he is a troll and that the entire incident re the cat getting hurt was made up. |
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"Diane L. Schirf" wrote in message link.net... In article Lf_bc.10765$zc1.8928@okepread03, "jesseH" wrote: From: "jesseH" Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav Subject: vets take advantage Lines: 25 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Lf_bc.10765$zc1.8928@okepread03 Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:33:56 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.228.72.34 X-Complaints-To: Interesting that AOL places Cox.net headers and uses MSOE . . . -- I'm kind of hoping he is a troll and that the entire incident re the cat getting hurt was made up. |
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On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 13:33:56 -0700, jesseH wrote:
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. Please don't feed the troll. -- Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind, http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way. ------------------------------------+------------------------------- |
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On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 13:33:56 -0700, jesseH wrote:
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. Please don't feed the troll. -- Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind, http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way. ------------------------------------+------------------------------- |
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