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[quote=Anonymous]I do not think vets are scammers at all. The hardest phase is definitely diagnostics. Sometimes it’s hard to pin down what is happening and sometimes the necessary testing is cost prohibitive or has too many other side effects. So a lot of vets will make an educated guess and consider treatments that won’t hurt if they’re wrong. That’s probably the category for your ear drops.

I think $350 is just what it costs to see the vet. Costs are high, time is money. That’s like the baseline for a visit.

My last very elderly dog suddenly became very painful and ill with some respiratory symptoms. The vet did a handheld ultrasound and saw masses in the chest cavity. To know what they really were, we would have had to sedate him and do X-rays. We decided they were probably cancer and he was in a lot of pain so we just said goodbye. But I don’t consider the ultrasound money “wasted,” even though we didn’t get a real diagnosis from it. And I wouldn’t have considered the X-rays to be a “scam” had I asked her to do them. [/quote]

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