My Neener lost a toe just the other day but the vet did it on purpose.
However it could have been the other way around.
Jack Russell Terrier eats Michigan man's toe and saves his life
Posted on 08/17/2013 8:04:43 AM PDT by Gamecock
GREELEY, Colo. (CBS4) – A patient had to have several toes removed after police in Greeley say a veterinarian provided medical care to him.
Police said Thursday Fran Freemyer, 78, was unauthorized to provide medical treatments to humans but did so for at least one person. He was cited for practicing medicine without a license.
Police said North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley contacted them earlier this summer about a 58-year-old man who said they were treated by Freemyer. The patient, whose identity is not being released, had to have surgery to remove three toes after seeing Freemyer.
Freemyer works at Eldred Small Animal Hospital at 1825 9th Street. Police Sgt. Susan West said Thursday the man went to him with a foot ailment and the vet gave him ointment. The problem got worse and he went to a hospital.
Freemyer told The Associated Press on Thursday that he was giving a dog skin cancer treatments and that the owner took some of the medicine home and gave it to their neighbor without his knowledge.
“I don’t treat people,” Freemyer said.
He said the dog, a Jack Russell terrier named “Scooter,” had lesions on his back and he rubbed it with a thick topical ointment and sent the dog home. He said the woman who owns the dog somehow got some of the medicine, and when a neighbor complained of a similar ailment on his foot, the dog owner thought the medicine would help.
Police said they are concerned Freemyer may have treated other people and are asking for help from the public in investigating that.
Coming soon too an Obamacare Clinic near you.
those idiot hippies who live in Colorado don’t believe in doctors
they would rather steal the dog’s medicine
I’ll stil take a vet over an M.D. anyday.
Actually, in the future, your dog’s vet is likely to be able to provide decent Health Care to Humans compared to the gov’t Death Panels.
Your dog’s name is Neener?
When I got her it was “Queenie”.
Strangest thing about this story is that your dogs and cat often gets BETTER medicine than you or I can!
Case in point: thickening of the heart wall is a defect that affects both humans and animals. In humans there is no medicine known to stop it. We had a cat that developed this problem. She was given a six month likely to survive window. Our vet found a new medicine, available for pets but not yet available for humans and put her on it.
Cut to the chase: one time when we had the cat back in for a check-up, FIVE YEARS LATER, I told my vet, “you know,if I’m ever dying of something that you know there is a medicine for dogs and cats that could cure it, I expect you to make it available to me.” He became all flustered and said, “well you know I can’t do that, it’s against the ethics of my profession.”
I said, “well let your ethics remember how much money I’ve paid you over the years, and how much I’ll pay you after I’m gone. I am a human being dammit, and I demand as good of care as a dog and cat gets!”
Why are you assuming that your body would process a medication the same way as your pets?
Most human cancer treatments and therapies first arose from canine veterinary trials. Dogs and people are similar in many ways, medically speaking. Not identical, but similar.
The first place my parents found was a veterinarian, and he did whatever he did.....I don't recall anything other than him using something to blow cold air on the fingers.
This was probably 1951 or so....
Most smell like dogs too.
Carlos Danger needs one of those...
Skin lesions, cancer, topical ointment? Graviola. Not “medicine” per se, holistic. Some benefit shown in clinical trial.
Lesions on toes sounds more like advanced diabetes as does ultimately losing those toes. I have a hard time believing that even the most ardent true believer would make that mistake. I’m siding with the vet, she didn’t treat this, somebody just decided it was good for lesions and now is looking to sue for the damage done to themselves.
From what I hear out of them, they seem to think Marijuana cures everything.
“My foot hurts!”
“Here, smoke this!”
“Why are you assuming that your body would process a medication the same way as your pets?”
I’m not. I am stating that if I have a death sentence condition, I’ll be up for trying anything. If my choices are death or steal some of Fido’s medicine - it’s “sorry Fido.”
And oh by the way, nearly ALL of the medicines we take are tested on dogs and cats first.
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