"whayface" wrote in message
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:32:04 -0400, "Phil P." wrote:

Apparently, don't take your cats to the vet very often for annual check
ups.
If you did, you'd realize $500 including x-rays is about right for an
emergency clinic. Most vets that work in emergency clinics are
specialists - Diplomates, American College of Veterinary Emergency and
Critical Care. Specialists are always more expensive than general
practioners. The same applies in human medicine. An additional
emergency
fee is also standard, even in human medicine, because emergency medicine
requires specialized equipment as well as the specialists to operate it.


What does one have to do with the other? Just because I think that
Emergency Pet Hospital
stinks that means I do not take them to the vet ?? How does that figure
?!?!?


I think you feel emergency fees are excessively high because you don't seem
to be aware of the cost of routine care. A general practioner, during
regular hours would have charged you ~ $350-400 for the same services. The
$500 fee you mentioned for the emergency services involved wasn't excessive
at all. I broke down an approximation of the fees in my previous post.