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The dog’s owner paid for surgery, but wouldn’t pay for an x-ray?
by munchler 3y ago
The dog’s owner paid for surgery, but wouldn’t pay for an x-ray?
- pie420 3y agoDon't let facts get in the way of a good blog post
- harrymit907 3y agoCost to benefits probably. Vet X-rays are surprisingly expensive and then surgery had to be done anyway.
- gcheong 3y agoTrue but as the vet in the article states she couldn’t be sure that the extent of the problem was just the corn cob without an x-ray so to me it would seem more logical to take the x-ray once you’ve decided on surgery.
- krallja 3y agoThey're like $100… aren't they?
- tialaramex 3y agoEven in human medicine some of the things on the "Do not do" guidance are diagnostic steps which are pointless because you will always do the same thing next regardless. A bunch of them are for infant minor injury where it's like don't do an X-ray. If you can see a break on the image you'd do A, but if you can't you'd figure the break might be too small to show up and do A anyway. Kids don't need more radiation, just do A immediately without requesting an X-ray. I have wondered if my cancer diagnosis is at the edge of this case. There's a step where they do a needle biopsy. But, as far as I can tell that biopsy always either says "Cancer" or "Don't know" and I'm not sure what else they'd do for "Not sure" beyond the next step in the cancer diagnosis...
- ninju 3y agoSorry to hear that...hope everything works out okay
- tialaramex 3y agoYeah, it went fine. I had Hodgkins, like 20+ years ago, it's very curable and (I didn't know at the time) occurs relatively often in young men. They fixed it. It's fun because I'm a walking example of why universal healthcare makes sense - even economic sense. I was a broke student, if healthcare cost money there's no way I'd have even gone to a doctor to ask about my weird symptoms - they weren't even really annoying, just it seemed like it's something doctors should check. If it cost money I'd have waited until I was in serious pain, at which point it's more likely they can't fix it or that if they can fix it the fix is really drastic. I didn't stay a broke student. I got a job, bought a home, I became a productive (tax revenue generating) citizen, instead of a corpse as would happen with no healthcare.
- maeil 3y agoWhat symptoms did you have?
- tialaramex 3y ago
- ShMcK 3y agoMy friend thought this was weird as well, but apparently common. People think vet's are trying to rip them off when they ask for a $70 x-ray, but they're okay with paying for a blind surgery.