Emergency Vet Bills

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most vets take interest free payments. We have split most large bills into 6 monthly installments at no additional costs. He didn't have a formal plan or a pre approved card or anything like that so I just popped in there with a check on the 1st of every month. This is something that was never advertised but welcomed as soon as I brought it up. I say that so you have the courage to bring it up because I think its a pretty common request.

That's very civilized, and how it should be given the astronomical bills. Friendship Animal Hospital said we had to pay the whole 8K up front. We didn't have it, it was awful. Though it would have been hard, we gladly would have used a payment plan over six months.

Friendship Animal hospital is a bunch of crooks. They kept our dog for almost 4 days for a vestibular incident. Which if you look it up can be treated by giving a dog antibiotics and keeping them at home. Thank god we had pet insurance. Also...as other stated they suggested a number of unnecessary tests.

We just took our dog into Friendship Animal Hospital yesterday for what we thought was a stroke but is actually Vestibular Disease. They gave our dog shot to help the nausea and some of the same medication in a pill form to administer at home, along with tips for us to care for him at home and sent us on our way. The bill was $295.

[Anonymous]

So.....you want the vet to save your pet’s life, but not guarantee payment for the treatment?

And you want your vet to diagnose your pet’s illness with telepathy and omniscience because you don’t want to run tests?

Believe it or not your vet needs to make a living. Believe it or not but the standard of care for pets is getting higher everyday....because owners demand it. Believe it or not, if the appropriate next step (tests, labs, etc....) are not suggested by a veterinarian, the vet can be found guilty of malpractice.

No one spends your money without your approval. Yes, tests are suggested that come back normal. Normal results does not mean a failure to do what is appropriate. It means that several conditions have been ruled out. Normal tests sometime give as much information as abnormal results.

So, yes vet care can be expensive no question. But don’t blame the vet or the vet hospital.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most vets take interest free payments. We have split most large bills into 6 monthly installments at no additional costs. He didn't have a formal plan or a pre approved card or anything like that so I just popped in there with a check on the 1st of every month. This is something that was never advertised but welcomed as soon as I brought it up. I say that so you have the courage to bring it up because I think its a pretty common request.

That's very civilized, and how it should be given the astronomical bills. Friendship Animal Hospital said we had to pay the whole 8K up front. We didn't have it, it was awful. Though it would have been hard, we gladly would have used a payment plan over six months.

Friendship Animal hospital is a bunch of crooks. They kept our dog for almost 4 days for a vestibular incident. Which if you look it up can be treated by giving a dog antibiotics and keeping them at home. Thank god we had pet insurance. Also...as other stated they suggested a number of unnecessary tests.

We just took our dog into Friendship Animal Hospital yesterday for what we thought was a stroke but is actually Vestibular Disease. They gave our dog shot to help the nausea and some of the same medication in a pill form to administer at home, along with tips for us to care for him at home and sent us on our way. The bill was $295.

Ok? Not sure what you are implying. My experience was we came in for what turned out to have been vestibular disease caused by an ear infection (we treated him for the ear infection but the medicine wasn't making it all the way down into the ear). They had our dog do a consult with the "neurologist", tested his liver function, and had him stay there overnight for multiple days. His symptoms were that he was dizzy. I guess you got the one honest vet that works there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So.....you want the vet to save your pet’s life, but not guarantee payment for the treatment?

And you want your vet to diagnose your pet’s illness with telepathy and omniscience because you don’t want to run tests?

Believe it or not your vet needs to make a living. Believe it or not but the standard of care for pets is getting higher everyday....because owners demand it. Believe it or not, if the appropriate next step (tests, labs, etc....) are not suggested by a veterinarian, the vet can be found guilty of malpractice.

No one spends your money without your approval. Yes, tests are suggested that come back normal. Normal results does not mean a failure to do what is appropriate. It means that several conditions have been ruled out. Normal tests sometime give as much information as abnormal results.

So, yes vet care can be expensive no question. But don’t blame the vet or the vet hospital.

Psh. I think there are issues when certain veterinary practices consistently treat animals in a way that is not consistent with the standard e of care that most vets would adopt but it maximizes the amount of fees that they can charge while subjecting people's bets to unnecessary procedures.

Of course they need to make a living. But stop pretending that there are not unethical people in every profession. And there are a lot of signs that veterinary medicine is no exception. For one, there has been a marked increase of pet insurance fraud in recent years which often includes vets doing unethical things, ranging from pretending to see pets that don't exist to actually assisting in injuring animals. Google is your friend.

Additionally, veterinary medicine is not as well regulated as medicine for humans and vets are not doctors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So.....you want the vet to save your pet’s life, but not guarantee payment for the treatment?

And you want your vet to diagnose your pet’s illness with telepathy and omniscience because you don’t want to run tests?

Believe it or not your vet needs to make a living. Believe it or not but the standard of care for pets is getting higher everyday....because owners demand it. Believe it or not, if the appropriate next step (tests, labs, etc....) are not suggested by a veterinarian, the vet can be found guilty of malpractice.

No one spends your money without your approval. Yes, tests are suggested that come back normal. Normal results does not mean a failure to do what is appropriate. It means that several conditions have been ruled out. Normal tests sometime give as much information as abnormal results.

So, yes vet care can be expensive no question. But don’t blame the vet or the vet hospital.

Psh. I think there are issues when certain veterinary practices consistently treat animals in a way that is not consistent with the standard e of care that most vets would adopt but it maximizes the amount of fees that they can charge while subjecting people's bets to unnecessary procedures.

Of course they need to make a living. But stop pretending that there are not unethical people in every profession. And there are a lot of signs that veterinary medicine is no exception. For one, there has been a marked increase of pet insurance fraud in recent years which often includes vets doing unethical things, ranging from pretending to see pets that don't exist to actually assisting in injuring animals. Google is your friend.

Additionally, veterinary medicine is not as well regulated as medicine for humans and vets are not doctors.

[Anonymous]

Whenever there is leeway to make more money, some people are going to push for it. Veterinary medicine and human dentistry are some professions where people often get unnecessary procedures because they lack the knowledge to make good judgements. Whereas general medicine has more checks and balances and the knowledge is out there.

In addition, emergency vet medicine is not regulated like human ERs and there is a time element that stresses people out. Add to that big corporations attempting to monopolize the emergency vet business, and WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? Prices skyrocket and customers are pressured into extra fees.

This has NOTHING to do with vets making a living.

[Anonymous]

We are going through this now, with a terminally ill dog. The vet doesn't want to put her down until she can't eat or drink. The dog's pain and costs are irrelevant to the vet. Thousands of dollars to watch a dog die slowly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are going through this now, with a terminally ill dog. The vet doesn't want to put her down until she can't eat or drink. The dog's pain and costs are irrelevant to the vet. Thousands of dollars to watch a dog die slowly.

You know that you have the choice in the matter, right? You are the best judge of whether your dog is suffering and when it’s actually time. Don’t let a vet bully you into keeping a terminally ill old pet alive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are going through this now, with a terminally ill dog. The vet doesn't want to put her down until she can't eat or drink. The dog's pain and costs are irrelevant to the vet. Thousands of dollars to watch a dog die slowly.

Get thee to another vet or a consult with Lap of Love.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So.....you want the vet to save your pet’s life, but not guarantee payment for the treatment?

And you want your vet to diagnose your pet’s illness with telepathy and omniscience because you don’t want to run tests?

Believe it or not your vet needs to make a living. Believe it or not but the standard of care for pets is getting higher everyday....because owners demand it. Believe it or not, if the appropriate next step (tests, labs, etc....) are not suggested by a veterinarian, the vet can be found guilty of malpractice.

No one spends your money without your approval. Yes, tests are suggested that come back normal. Normal results does not mean a failure to do what is appropriate. It means that several conditions have been ruled out. Normal tests sometime give as much information as abnormal results.

So, yes vet care can be expensive no question. But don’t blame the vet or the vet hospital.

Either clueless or a shill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Whenever there is leeway to make more money, some people are going to push for it. Veterinary medicine and human dentistry are some professions where people often get unnecessary procedures because they lack the knowledge to make good judgements. Whereas general medicine has more checks and balances and the knowledge is out there.

In addition, emergency vet medicine is not regulated like human ERs and there is a time element that stresses people out. Add to that big corporations attempting to monopolize the emergency vet business, and WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? Prices skyrocket and customers are pressured into extra fees.

This has NOTHING to do with vets making a living.

But without a yacht are you really living?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Whenever there is leeway to make more money, some people are going to push for it. Veterinary medicine and human dentistry are some professions where people often get unnecessary procedures because they lack the knowledge to make good judgements. Whereas general medicine has more checks and balances and the knowledge is out there.

In addition, emergency vet medicine is not regulated like human ERs and there is a time element that stresses people out. Add to that big corporations attempting to monopolize the emergency vet business, and WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? Prices skyrocket and customers are pressured into extra fees.

This has NOTHING to do with vets making a living.

But without a yacht are you really living?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are going through this now, with a terminally ill dog. The vet doesn't want to put her down until she can't eat or drink. The dog's pain and costs are irrelevant to the vet. Thousands of dollars to watch a dog die slowly.

Not for me. The dog would be gone already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are going through this now, with a terminally ill dog. The vet doesn't want to put her down until she can't eat or drink. The dog's pain and costs are irrelevant to the vet. Thousands of dollars to watch a dog die slowly.

You need a new vet. Our vet encouraged us to let go even when we were not yet ready. They pointed out the how our dog no longer had a quality life. Simply eating and drinking is not the right criteria. Looking back they helped us make the right choice for our dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So.....you want the vet to save your pet’s life, but not guarantee payment for the treatment?

And you want your vet to diagnose your pet’s illness with telepathy and omniscience because you don’t want to run tests?

Believe it or not your vet needs to BUY A SECOND BOAT & SEND ALL CHILDREN TO PRIVATE SCHOOL & TAKE REGULAR TRIPS TO EUROPE AND THE CARIBBEAN BECAUSE THEY ‘DESERVE IT’ make a living. Believe it or not but the standard of care for pets is getting higher everyday....because owners demand it. Believe it or not, if the appropriate next step (tests, labs, etc....) are not suggested by a veterinarian, the vet can be found guilty of malpractice.

No one spends your money without your approval. Yes, tests are suggested that come back normal. Normal results does not mean a failure to do what is appropriate. It means that several conditions have been ruled out. Normal tests sometime give as much information as abnormal results.

So, yes vet care can be expensive no question. But don’t blame the vet or the vet hospital.

Either clueless or a shill.

Fixed it for you.