First I guess I have to declare I have no affiliation, financial or
otherwise, with any lab...
Having said that, I think everyone so far has had a valid point to make. On
the subject of "unnecessary bloodwork," however, I want to mention that a
patient of mine (who has always had, physically, one of the healthiest
constitutions I've encountered), finally decided to see her regular
physician this fall due to ear pain. He said that since he hadn't seen her
(my pt) in a long time he wanted to do a blood workup. A condition
unrelated to the ear infection (long past, as of this writing) was suggested
by the results of the bloodwork, necessitating further tests and resulting
in surgery (coming up shortly) to remove her entire thyroid gland. Though
my pt is still asymptomatic, the fact that her condition has been caught so
early means that surgery will be minimally invasive, and will probably not
need to be followed with radiation, etc.
If anyone feels their vet views their visit as another installment
toward a yacht, I hope that, if they live in an area with more than one vet,
they'll switch. And I'd like to think we wouldn't do any less for our dogs
(in fact, sometimes it's more!) than we'd do for ourselves. So, even if the
likelihood of discovering a problem is one in a million, if that "one" is
you or someone you care about (human or canine), surely the lab fees were
worth it--? Just my opinion, of course,
Alida
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