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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's an awful situation. Even though it's awful, they can't care for more patients than they can care for, and if they were maxed, they were maxed.

OP, if they had admitted your dog, would you have been okay if they left your dog to take an unnoticed turn for the worse and die in the corner, just so they could keep seeing more emergencies that kept coming through the door? Would you have said "oh, well," or would you have argued that they had first responsibility to the animals already under their care?[/quote]

I don’t understand what that means. Why can’t a vet come provide emergency care for a puppy? It’s an emergency [/quote]

Yes, you do understand.

You just don’t want to.

And in times of pandemic, think that  this might happen to you, in a human hospital, if we can’t get dangerous variants under control. It has happened elsewhere in the world already.

There are only so many medics  to go round. 
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This is happening now with people in CA.

That annoying celebrity even told all about their ordeal to get emergency care when post-surgery complications arose.  An ambulance carted them around to various hospitals for something like 2 or 3 hours until one was found that was accepting patients.

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This. It happens with people during high demand times for health services (like a pandemic or even flu season.) My dad became ill during a particularly bad local outbreak of pneumonia; hospitals in my home area of Virginia did not have room for people in their emergency rooms and some had to travel up to to hours away. Not a rural area, even!

It happens with people and it also happens with animals. [/quote]

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