Health Chaos » Veterinary http://www.healthchaos.com Broken Health Care; Broken Professions Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:09:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Extra Toe http://www.healthchaos.com/extra-toe http://www.healthchaos.com/extra-toe#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:30:15 +0000 marie http://www.healthchaos.com/?p=74 Veterinary medicine also fits into Health Chaos. My dog has grown an extra toe with a nail on it. I ignored it until she started licking it and biting it. So now I have to take her to the veterinarian tomorrow. What kind of an anomaly is this? She is by far one of the healthiest dogs I have ever had, except for this anomaly on her right front paw. Has anyone out there ever heard about this? Could you give me some advice? One of my son’s said “If I could grow an extra finger, I wouldn’t have to worry so much about using a knife”.

]]> http://www.healthchaos.com/extra-toe/feed 0 Veterinary Medicine? http://www.healthchaos.com/veterinary-medicine http://www.healthchaos.com/veterinary-medicine#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:45:28 +0000 marie http://www.healthchaos.com/?p=49 I have often talked about the misuse of drugs in health care. That is, prescribing drugs we don’t need, thanks to the pharmaceutical industry “training” our health care providers. But only recently have I observed this to also be inherent in veterinary medicine. Maybe I need to find a new veterinarian?!

 I took my dog, a 10yo Tibetan Terrier, to the vet on Tuesday because she was having some diarrhea. So what did I come home with?

  • cephalexin capsules for her itchy belly
  • bordatella vaccine (for potential kennel cough, which she has never had)
  • a fecal test for ova and parasites (just in case that was the cause of the loose poop) just got a call; test normal!
  • panacur (to add to her food to kill parasites that she MAY have had; and MAY NOT have had) obviously she didn’t.
  • 8 cans of low fat food
  • a creamy conditioner to rub on her belly to take away the itching. I believe that meditation and talking to her would have worked just as well.
  • a topical spray when the itching gets crazy. She hates it. Smells and tastes like ethanol.
  • a special order for the new drug that is being pushed for allergies: atopica. I have decided that I would rather deal with the allergies in a naturopathic way.
  • biohazard fee. For what? recycling the   syringe used for the nasal inhalant bordatella vaccine?

The bill: $258.91. And I have decided not to give Sara most of this stuff. I am very sorry that I was in a naive mood and bought this junk. I was being stupid and forgetting my same anger toward the human medical industry. I need to find a naturopathic veterinarian.

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