Why Vets Are Getting Away With Murder - Page 1

http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/why-vets-are-getting-away-with-murder/

Follow the money...most vets don't have your dog's wellbeing in mind, but your pocketbook. Thanks, Blitzen, good article.

sounds like a bunch of hearsay and conspiracy theory - these same arguments are made against human doctors, in fact you can replace the word dog and vet with human and doctor and get a match with any other voodoo alternative medicine crystal healing new age web site.

 

instead of opinon they can do an actual study using the scientific method and publish that. they may well be correct and i don't doubt that there is over-servicing occurring, does not support the attention seeking claim that the whoole system is broken.

 

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assuming we are allowed to disagree with blitzen and post an individual opinions still.

http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/what-every-vet-should-know-about-vaccines/

This referenced artlcle shows the length of duration of a number of the vaccines. Many of the individuals interviewed were also veterinarians.

http://www.rabieschallengefund.org/ Headed by an internationally known veterinarian and PhD in Immunology and Veterinary Pathology, using science...

Worked for some veterinarians that were in it only for the $$, a sorry mess; yup, there are doctors like that too, ta dah!

The article advises due diligence in selecting a veterinarian, not bad advice for anyone. All in being advocates for our pets, they can't speak up...

Share something like this with a vet friend though and all hell breaks loose!

 

It's sad how true this article is... it's worse that the vets are in total denial about it.

The reality is most vets work on commission, make money on what they bill you for...These is nothing compare to many things that they do and say to naive dog owners, preying on their dog's love, to empty their pockets.

It's sad..............

Thank you, Blitzen. I think this is a good article in that it raises awareness about over vaccinating and unnecessary preventatives (tick, flea) and other treatments. I definitely believe some vets are in it for the money, but most vet's I have dealt with aren't like that. They discourage annual vaccines and unnecessary use of flea and tick prevention. One vet told me he tries to encourage his clients NOT to vaccinate annually. He vaccinates his own dogs every 3-5 years. One problem he faces is that vaccines most are labeled as annual vaccines. Even though it has been proven that dogs don't need annual vaccines, the pharmaceutical companies won't change the labeling because they will lose money. So, if a client agrees not to vaccinate annually for leptospirosis and her dog gets leptospirosis the vet can be held liable because he went against what the label stated. Apparently this has happened, but not to him. Another one of the vets I take my dogs to refuses to give annual vaccines and says she doesn't care if she gets sued. She has to do what is best for the dogs.

and the more distant things like polio become due to vaccines the louder the any-vax crowd get, and when all hell breaks loose and the bodies pile up.....

 

the pattern is hundreds of years old, best to do some research before you stop handing your money to the vet and give it to the witch doctor instead.

 

but yes again, i agree that overservicing for profit  is not a non-issue, until something goes wrong with your dog.

Vaccines have been misused because the " annual booster" brought people in the door for a $55 annual checkup exam that cost the vet nothing to do and gave the veterinarians a chance to sell flea, tick, heartworm and other products to the dog owner.  Final bill usually between $75 to $125 for the annual checkup per dog.  Price fixing is likewise rampant as vets get together and agree on what to charge for services.  The "boards" overseeing the veterinarians in each state are run by veterinarians who are policing themselves.  Similar to when the military investigates itself and finds itself innocent of all charges.  Veterinarians run a business and you should not trust them any more than your auto mechanic or a building contractor because if your vet kills your dog the most it costs him is the replacement cost of the dog.  Doctors on the other hand know that class action law suites and $500 per hour lawyers can take away all their toys so they are more careful to not screw up and of course if they do screw up to not get caught.  The rise of the "vet in a box" corporate clinics has likewise made it easy for salaried veterinarians to follow "company policy" on over charging and misleading the customer.

I have seen what the antivax crowd has done to innocent humans who have needlessly died of preventable diseases. I haven't heard of this happening with dogs, though I'm probably just not aware of it. I shudder to think of a puppy getting parvovirus because some misinformed person thought it didn't need the vaccine!

So, I take a middle groud on this. Yes, vet clinics use the annual vaccines to get clients in the door, and yes, I think $125 or more per dog is way too much to be paying out yearly for services, some of which are unncecessary. For instance, I treat my dogs for fleas ONLY when I see signs of fleas. (Ticks aren't a big problem here.)

OTOH, vets do pick up on problems that might otherwise go untreated during these yearly exams. A yearly health exam is good policy for humans. Don't our canine friends deserve the same, whether they get vaccinated or not?