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Originally Posted by Lulu's owner
You have to be pretty bold to ask for a second opinion, vets tend to take it as a slur on their professional expertise. Although the vet is pressurising me a bit about longterm Metacam, he is prepared to extract the teeth if that's what I opt for. Maybe he doesn't want to be blamed if Lulu is in the 20% that don't improve. As regards my mum, she's 80 and definitely will not change vets. She went to old Mr X, probably dead now, and now she sees his son, young Mr X (who is almost pension age himself now), so there's no chance whatsoever!  |
Well, I think any vet should be professional enough to understand that someone who cares as much about their pets as you do might want a second opinion.
After all humans do it all the time, in fact many insurance companies (in the USA at least) require a second opinion before a major surgical procedure.
I don't hesitate to question my vet, and if she thinks someone else might have another approach she is more than happy for me to check it out.
But I won't nag about it anymore.
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