That's why I love where I work. We are below the fee guide and the least expensive clinic around, because the owners are not in it for the money at all.

We do payment plans for people who cannot afford treatments, but not everyone. If it is someone who we have never seen before we are very wary and precautions as we have been bitten in the butt before.

And we're good with drugs. I spent 2 hours the other day trying to find a pharmacy that was the cheapest so a man who fell on hard times could afford seizure medication for their dog, as our supplier was more expensive than most.

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Originally Posted by Aurora_Bell

This was about 10 years ago... but after Max was neutered, they prescribed his normal pain meds, costed about $40 for a small vial that he needed to take 2x a day for 2 days. Well funny story, my dad was in the grocery store and happended to be in the pharacy section looking for tylenol, started to chat it up with the poharmacist, sure enugh they started talking baout how he just paid $40 for pain meds for the dog, blah bah blah, the Pharmasict looked at the bottel, and told him it was nothing but an anti inflamitory like childrens MOTRIN! cost for a bottel? $4.75 lasts about a month.
lol

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Though I'm sure he meant well, that is a HUUUUGE pet peeve of mine - human doctors, nurses and pharmacologists who think they know just as much as a vet because they have medical knowledge of humans.
Motrin is basically advil, and if given in the incorrect dosage or over an extended period can be very dangerous. We had one cat die (its very toxic to them) and a dog form horrible gastric ulcers because they put their dogs on it, as per what a pharmacist said..