AMEN!! ---- Rachel Dagner <[email protected]> wrote: > I think we need both natural and conventional. After all if your > cholesterol is high and you lose weight and change your diet and eat some > oatmeal everyday it is likely that you can bring it down without spending > your life of drugs. Right? There is merit to including vitamins and > supplements and the healthiest food you can put in your body and into that > of your animals. > > > > *From:* Felvtalk [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of > *ROBERT CHAPEL > *Sent:* Thursday, June 09, 2016 5:00 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Felvtalk] Vaccines and General Health Knowledge... > > > > I applaud Amani's very nicely delineated defense of Vaccines and her > pointing out how many people who are anti vax ( and dare I say wedded to " > all natural " cures etc) more often than not have a sub standard > understanding of immunology, Micro Bio and even basic physiology..... I am > not a huge fan of the medical 'machine' in america but the fact that it is > BIG business should not obviate the fact that there are MANY individual > MD's and Vets who do their level best to practice well and ethically and > who DO know quite a bit more than we do even if we do not always like the > conclusions they draw. Silly people who are fond of saying that " The > Doctors don't know what they are talking about" can seldom be seen avoiding > these same uninformed professionals as soon as something goes amiss with > their health.( Then , of course, fail to follow the advice they are > given...don't improve and blame it on the fact the the " Doctors don't know > what they are talking about" : ) We run that risk here as well.... Vets > are businessmen/women and the world of Vet medicine is rapidly changing in > the same direction as Human Medicine...Vets are incentivized in group > practices to sell services AND medications and don't always predicate their > decisions on what is best for the patient or owner..THAT is why it is SO > important to NOT run from Vet to Vet... find one that you basically trust > and stay with them!! Same with MD's.... Even if they are under pressure > to " sell " most decent people will allow the long term relationship to > count for "something" over time and modify their approach. Most > importantly try to learn all you can to discourse _ intelligently_ about > your animals disease process so that you can somewhat impassively evaluate > the advice you were given by a vet and determine if he/she was simply not > paying enough attention to your concerns, or fully grasped them but reached > a different conclusion.... The Vet I saw the other day who really did > give a careful examination to my Yogi had no investment in me OR my cat but > was a professional and did what needed to be done....prescribed sensibly > > ( which resulted in very clear improvement for my cat) but did NOT want to > prescribe Winstrol I believe because he could not keep the script in house > ( ie...can't get his hands on it and can't make a profit on it) > > The other vet in the same practice that I saw showed no signs of the same > profit motive, WAS willing to prescribe Winstrol but gave my guy a FAR more > cursory examination( eg...didn't even use a tonometer to measure > Intraocular Pressure).. and recommended against using the very drugs that > were responsible for my guys improvement...... Who is the better vet?? > I don't know... I know that I have to decide on someone with whom to > develop a relationship and I could go broke running from Vet to Vet until I > find one that I trust right out of the Box... ( BTW....EACH one of the > Vets mentioned were recommended to me).. > > Sorry for the length of this "rant"... hope it wasn't an imposition... > The brief " take away "... We are the advocates for our FeLV kitties and > we owe it to ourselves and them to be as scientifically informed as we can > be ... Sadly todays " professionals " are sometimes not a lot different > than the Deli clerk who has been instructed to routinely go over when you > ask for a "half pound"...... I am old enough to feel a profound sadness at > this dilution of the meaning of professional..... Now we really DO have to > keep both eyes open > > until we know our " professional" well.
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