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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^he also always pushed for unnecessarily expensive things - ooh your cat vomitted, let's do a sonogram for $300

no thanks.[/quote]

Why did you bring your cat to the vet if you don't want them to diagnose the cat?  How would you suggest they diagnose the issue?  Quiz the cat on what it ate?  Palpate the cat's abdomen and ask "does this hurt? how about this?"

Most people don't bring their cat in because it threw up a couple of times.  Obviously this was a recurring issue that indicates a potentially serious problem that went beyond trying a change in diet or making sure they didn't eat something poisonous.

Diagnosis is challenging, because the cat can't tell you what's wrong.  So you are stuck with the option of trying some cheaper diagnostics first.  Let's say you can try a medication first for $50 (which is hit or miss), then an xray for $100 (which may reveal some, but not all conditions), then a sonogram for $200 (which will give you the most information).  If you go with the first two and neither of those reveals the issue, then you end up doing the sonogram, and the total spend will be $350 and the client will complain about why you didn't just do the sonogram for $200 to begin with.  If you skip straight to the $200 sonogram, the client will complain that you should have tried the $50 fix first, instead of going straight to the expensive diagnostic.    [/quote]

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