I am a veterinarian myself. Last year, while doing relief work at a small private animal hospital in Queens, NY, I saw an eight-year-old dog who was quite ill and jaundiced. Obviously, she needed hospitalization, diagnostics, and intensive care. I arranged for the owner to bring the dog to a specialty hospital where the little dog could have gotten the intensive supportive care she needed and would have had the best chance for recovery.. The owner left the hospital where I was working, assuring me she was taking the dog straight to the specialty hospital. When I called that hospital the next day, I was told she never showed up.\r
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Two days later she went to Dr. Warren, at which time the dog was even more critically ill.. Dr. Warren convinced her to hospitalize her pet, but unfortunately the disease was now so advanced that hard as he tried (and try he did), it was too late to save the poor dog. The owner had mentioned she had been to another vet two days earlier, but didn't say
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