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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]
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. [/quote]

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