Esther
Oh Yes! This subject also hits home. Politely Ignore! Sometimes, maybe being rude ignoring!!
I have also seen several veterinarians thru the years. Some conventional, several holistic and the one holistic homeopathic veterinarian.
Let me start with a dog I owned several years ago. I have noticed he had some symptoms after teeth cleaning with anesthesia. I found out it was Ketaset or Ketamine hydrochloride. He vocalized afterward sounds and noises that appeared he was in pain. Also noticed some vomiting. Years later after cleaning teeth again, same symptoms but now there was a bloody tarry vomit. Took him to the emergency. I explained to the doctor there what I had observed with this dog. NO POLITELY Ignoring!! rather RUDE IGNORING here, throwing my paper towel where I had carefully collected his vomit in the garbage!! And dismissing my observations completely. Suggested to do a laparoscopy procedure, which I refused and told her she was not going to put my under anesthesia again for that.
Most recent events, my little girl had vomiting, regurgitation I had observed after Frontline, this was the trip to the homeopathic veterinarian here in a quite large clinic in Maryland. I said I thought Frontline was causing this symptom, Politely Ignore again!! this time by a holistic veterinarian who took an X-ray and found nothing wrong, told me to come back and she will see after doing another Barium X-ray. If nothing was wrong then she was going to look in the material medica for a homeopathic remedy for regurgitation!! I have paid holistic fees to a homeopathic doctor who never prescribed a single homeopathic remedy to my dogs, except for Lyssin after a rabies vaccine!!. Left this clinic for good decide to go a conventional doctor known in her clinic for her holistic beliefs compare to the other in same clinic. I told her the same story, POLITELY IGNORE again. Not unless she has licked Frontline. She run some tests they all came back negative. Waste of money, I decided to see by trial. Stop Frontline, symptom will disappeared, use Frontline once more, symptom reappeared. Vomiting is gone we have stopped all poisons for good. Needless to say I feel guilty I should have known better, and the guilt still remains after so many years with the dog and the anesthesia, he died of cancer 3 years after that episode with the emergency room, but NO CONNECTIONS were made there.
Esther