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Any health related information on the following show provides general
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information only. Content presented on any show by any host
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or guests should not be substituted for a doctor's advice.
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Always consult your physician before beginning any new diet, exercise,
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or treatment program. And now it's time for Pet Health Cafe,
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where your Pet has a Voice. And here's your host,
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Bill the Pet Health Guru.
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And welcome to the Pet Health Cafe that shows where
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your Pet has a Voice. This is Bill the Pet
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Health Guru, and I have another exciting show lined up
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for you tonight. It's kind of a almost a continuation
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of the conversation of we had a couple of weeks ago.
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As always, I want you to share this with as
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many people as you can. Do it right now so
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you don't forget, so they can come in on it,
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make sure that they like and subscribe, so we get
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our algorithms up. We need to get this information out
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the more and more people because our message is becoming
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so very very important to the health of our animals
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and even our families as well. It's kind of a
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mission that we're really working on here, and that's very
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very important. The chat is open. I encourage you to
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put questions in your comments in and we will just
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keep rolling along with these topics and getting you more
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and more information. Tonight, I want to talk about a
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topic that's been very painful, if you will, to me,
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and that's the of course, we started on the show
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a couple of weeks ago about abuse. But I want
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to talk tonight about what is malpractice and how do
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we determine it and what can be done about it?
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And with that I got my special guest, doctor Michael
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Dimmu as always my expert on this kind of stuff.
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So how you doing, Doc? Not too bad? You know.
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It's uh unfortunately, you know, and I've brought this topic
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up and you're well aware of it because we've had
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several really really challenging cases recently with you know, people
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going through the yellopathic model and the amount of misinformation,
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the amount of overtesting, over prescribing, things of that nature,
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and at some point in time that has to enter
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into the realm of malpractice, doesn't.
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It absolutely sure those you know, in my mind, it does.
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You know.
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It's unfortunate that standard of care my allopathic colleagues has
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amped it up up to such specialty medicine that you know,
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the testing and the referrals or gotten so out of
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control and you know we're not, uh, we're not giving
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our patients better care. And what happens during this these
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huge workups is is often mistakes and sometimes the obvious
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is miss and we end up with cases with poor
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outcomes and you know they can order on our practice
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or negative for sure.
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You know, I mean by definition, you know, in the
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in the veterinary trade, what would be a determining factor
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or you know, a kind of definition of what malpractice
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really would be.
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Well, it's actually, honestly to build the opposite.
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Now, practice would be either the either a failure to
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perform certain tests to diagnose the patients. So it's actually
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the opposite of what you and I are or misapplication
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of testing where interpretation is below what's considered a standard
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of care. And in those cases we end up with,
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you know, cases again that have poor outcome and you know,
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and our animals are the ones who suffer, and the
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guardians of course.
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Well yeah, I mean it's it's it's kind of a
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catch twenty two. I realize that you know, one of
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the things that of course is a side effect of that,
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of course, is the high cost of the care, isn't it.
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It sure is, Yeah, the cost of the care just
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to paint, even just the routine exams. You can't get
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away with less than eighty to one hundred dollars for
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just even having an event look at your animal. And
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as you always say, usually that's done for just a
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few minutes. But the cost of the testing and the
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cost of diagnostics and the procedures is so way out
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of bound. And you know, our guardians then end up
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having that gans end up spending all their money on
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these routine tests, and then they don't have anything left
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for treatment or appropriate treatment, even if it's Western medicine treatment.
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They don't have any money left for that much less
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you know, proper diet, detoxing and herbal.
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It certainly makes our job very, very difficult. And you know,
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because you know, some things are just so obvious to
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you and I you know, it's like, you know, you know,
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dog has got diarrhea vomiting, I mean, which is a
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symptom of basically every disease that's ever been discovered. You know,
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it's it's one of the first symptoms that the body
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is got is basically trying to just eliminate a problem.
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plug them up and you know, try to disinfect them
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if you will, with antibiotics and you know, steroids and
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you know anti diarrheal, anti vomiting drugs, fluids, all this
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other stuff before they've even got a diagnosis. And I
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think that's probably the biggest streategy tragedy, is they're treating
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something something without even diagnosing or really looking at what
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the problem is.
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Most of the time we don't even make a diagnosis
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even after all this testing and everything.
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I mean, you and I had a.
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Recent shared case last week of an animal that went
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in with a very high fever and weakness.
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all got a low platelet number, and they thought it
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might have cancer, and then they thought it had an
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order of view.
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Issue, and you know, it all said and done, they said, well,
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we think it's a bacterial or viral infection from from
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the intestinal track. I mean, come up with such bs
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diagnoses that don't have any basis whatsoever.
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Yeah, And I mean then at the end of the day,
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of course, then they came back with a final determination
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that it was some court of some kind of strange
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cancer that they couldn't diagnose. And of course, unfortunately, you know,
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the client lost the dog. You know, it's it's very unfortunate.
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But you know the fact of the matter is when
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I looked at it, immediately I knew there was something
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going on with in the gut. You know, that usually
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indicates some sort of toxicity, whether it's already built up
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in the body and it just hit an extreme point,
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or there was another external factor that kicked it over.
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I know, this person had been traveling, and so the
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dog was a bit stressed, the pet sitter, things of
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that nature. All these things can be triggers, and yet
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you know, they just kept It was funny because the
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conversation I had it was like the that was just
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doing a checkbox on a computer. You know, is this
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a symptom? Click here? If it's not, click here, you know,
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and then the next thing, the next line, the next line,
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the next line. It was like robotics, and you know,
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it went off on so many different tangents over four
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or five days days that it was it was, you know,
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just insanity basically.
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it came to see us, it had years and years
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of tumor removals and cancer removals and lungs and I
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just want to specific and when we do that to
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our animal patients, we weaken their healing abilities, we weaken
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the life force of the chie and the animal. And
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so you know that also probably played a role too,
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is that this patient was so suppressed with previous harsh
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treatment that it did affect the body's ability to you know,
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to fend off toxins at the heel. I mean, I
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don't believe we don't die from cancer per se. No, No,
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it's as you say, it's toxicity.
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And and of course you know, I don't know if
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if you've seen, you know, any listings yet or that
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I had requested that we possibly get the records, but
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who knows how many drugs were prescribed that and treatments
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over that four five six days. I mean, it's funny,
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I you know, I know that she went for was
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it an MRI or Catsian looking for the looking searching
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for cancer, which didn't reveal what they were looking for.
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But I saw a research thing that came out in
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the last couple of days that basically the dyes they
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use the contrast eyes are more problematic than a radiation. Sure,
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how long have they been doing this, you know, to
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humans as well as animals.
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Right right?
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Yeah, yeah, And so you know, you go through this
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whole diagnostic crusade.
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And as I said, when I.
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Spoke to the person a week a few days before,
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they were like saying, well, we believe it's some weird
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virus of bacteria. We need to use antibiotics, and the
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antibiotics are what weaken the patient's defenses.
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And you know, just cause things are just unravel even
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more so.
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Yeah, and you know, I mean this is just one
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of several that we've gone through in you know, the
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last month. I mean it's like almost every other you know,
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every other day, we're getting something else that's like I panicked,
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I went to the I went to the yellow path,
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and then they're then they get in fights on the
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other side of it. And this is why I ask
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about what is really malpractice? I mean, you know, you
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go in here, your dog isn't is off on. You know,
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we're obviously after seeing you and I we're already aware
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that there's an issue with the animal that we are
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working to correct those issues, make them into a healthier state.
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And they walk into the office, and of course, you know,
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right now, one of the preliminary questions is what are
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you feeding? If you say raw food? Oh my god,
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you know you're now in a fight with a veterinarian
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who's never studied nutrition, right, and now, how can you
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have a relation, a healing relationship with that so called professional,
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because I don't think that seems very professional in itself.
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You know, I'm here because I have a problem. Let's
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look at the problem that look at you know, your
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political or you know, your philosophy on foods that you
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never studied. That's not a part of the equation. It's
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not even a part of it for the most part,
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unless you're obviously feeding you know, rat poison or something
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of that nature. And I don't think most people are
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doing that anyway.
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Yeah, but you know, when when a doctor or veterinarian
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starts going down these rabbit holes, if you will, prescribing
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and recommending products that are that are known in the
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scientific literature in the you know, adverse event records that
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they are dangerous. I mean, I believe that should be malpractice.
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You're right, it should be built.
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But unfortunately it's as I mentioned at the outset, it's
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often considered the standard of care. I mean, we had
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another mutual case that I go to today on a
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phone recheck where it was a little three pound kihuahua
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that went into heart failure, you know suddenly, and the
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guardian took you know, had to go to the er
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and they did a good job. They stabilized it and
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removed the fluid with you know, the diuretics and all
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of that. But now that they've stabilized that, they want
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to put the dog on a whole slew of drugs,
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whole slew of medication, and the dog weighs built three pounds,
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and as I said, a mutual pine of ours that
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I can work together.
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And she's born because she keeps being.
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Dragged by my alopetic colleagues to just do more testing,
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more fear, more drugs by noosis, things, this, that the
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other thing, and she doesn't know what to do, I mean,
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and so she gets to me that is now practice,
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and you know it's just such overtreatment and some of
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these drugs to manage the heart failure, haven't you have
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been shown to work?
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You know, So it's just it's.
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It's it's not only that they haven't been shown to work,
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but in many cases none of them have been tested
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on animals. And of course, especially when you have such
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a wide range from that little three pound huhuahua to
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that two hundred and fifty pounds you know, bull mastiff,
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what's even a correct dosage? I mean, you know we've
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gone through that with you know, the injectables that one
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size fits all. I mean, it's it's it's there's no
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common sense to start with. And now we do it
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as a prescribed procedure, if you will, and you know,
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and and of course on the other side of that,
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it's like, okay, we gave them, we gave them that treatment,
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we send you home. Most cases, there's no real follow up,
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there's no instruction on what to do next. What you
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can expect. You know, this is a list of adverse
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events that can happen. You know, because even if you