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Businiess name:  The Animal Medical Center
Review by:  L B.
Review content: 
I don't know if this is standard operating procedure, but I thought I should share an experience that I found upsetting when I took my pet to the Animal Medical Center in May 2000. My small animal was suffering from severe edema (water retention). The vet could not feel anything through all the abdominal fluids, so she took an X-ray. The X-ray was equally useless, due to all of the fluid obstructing the view. The vet then told me that the animal probably had some kind of tumor which was causing the edema, but it could not be seen or felt well enough to be sure. Here is where it got upsetting... Having worked with lab rats, I knew personally that it was possible to anesthetize a small animal using cotton balls soaked in ether, and use a fine needle to draw off fluids. I myself have drawn blood from rats' tails and hearts, and the rats all lived to squeak another day. So I suggested to this vet that she follow this procedure to draw off some of the excess fluids from the abdomen, so she could then either feel or X-ray effectively. She refused to do this. To this day, I can't figure out why. She had an inconclusive, educated guess for a diagnosis, and there was only one way to find out for sure. The only alternative was to put the pet down. Given that we were going to kill the pet anyway, why not just take this last measure to be sure? Is this how you would let a doctor treat your grandmother? Feeling powerless, I let the vet kill my pet first, THEN draw off the fluids for an exam, This seemed maddeningly backwards. Thank GOODNESS the brief autopsy confirmed the diagnosis (inoperable fatal tumor), or I would have been livid that they had killed my pet essentially for no reason except to follow their infernal protocol. Or DID the exam confirm it? I'll never know if the vet just told me that to get rid of me or not. I got the feeling, despite her compassionate tone, that she really didn't feel like expending a lot of effort on my pet who was only a few ounces. To add insult to injury, when I asked for the X-ray, they would not let me have it. At this point, my pet is DEAD, and I am never coming back. Why not let me have the X-ray to keep, especially since I had just paid $25 for it? Pretty upsetting. What do you think?

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