Vet accused of treating people pleads guilty

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[verga]

Back in the late 1940s, the vet in the small town where my wife was born did deliveries when the doc wasn’t available; and the doc would patch up critters when the vet wasn’t available. Nobody worried about it a bit.

Friend of mine stiches up his own kids and has done the same for a number of the neighbor kids. Antibiotics are antibiotics and generally the animal versions are cheaper.

[ApplegateRanch]

Antibiotics are antibiotics and generally the animal versions are cheaper.

They're also often easier to get without a scrip, making it cheaper yet. That's why I've bought & used them for decades.

[BBell]

The funny thing about the show is that it is so politically incorrect that it could not be made in the U.S. but yet the Canadians made it. Go figure.

[ErnBatavia]

About 60 years ago when I was maybe 7 or younger, we were on a family driving trip out of town, and one of the parents accidentally shut a rear car door on all of my fingers.

I must have squalled a lot because they drove around looking for some aid, and ended up at a veterinarian's place......I don't remember any other details, but will assume that he was able to determine that nothing was broken.

[Eaker]

My doc gave me Tramadol once a day for arthritis and it didn’t do anything. A few years ago my vet gave my dog the same strength Tramadol for an injury.

My dosage was 1 per day and my dog’s was 1/2 per day. I weighed about 165lb at the time and he weighed 10lb.

No wonder the far under prescribed dosage didn’t do a damned thing. After that when the pain was bad I took eight at a time and actually got some relief.

I would trust a vet over a dr any day.