Saturday, March 24, 2007

Aztec Animal Clinic 2


This is a photo of their "ICU", taken from the Aztec Animal Clinic website. Looks very impressive, doesn't it? Here is the description from their website:
The intensive care cage bank is in the treatment area. Patients who are on intravenous fluids, recovering from anesthesia, seriously ill or in need of close monitoring are held in this area. This allows for constant observation by the doctors and technicians.
The only problem is, that all of the doctors and nurses (technicians) go home at 5:30! There is no one left to take care of the patients in this ICU!

Aztec Animal Clinic


Greetings:

I am starting this blog to disclose the truth about the Aztec Animal Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I took my min-pin there a couple of days ago. He was very sick, so weak he could not walk or even hold his head up. (When I tried to give him some water, his head dropped into the water bowl). I went there after a recommendation from a friend, who had her dog's teeth cleaned there. This is what I read on the Aztec Animal Clinic website: (quote)

"INTENSIVE AND CRITICAL CARE for hospitalized patients, including oxygen therapy, blood pressure monitoring, fluid therapy, and blood transfusion capabilities."

After reading that on their website the night before, I assumed this facility is an animal hospital where the patients receive hospital care. Imagine my surprise, after speaking with one of their physicians last evening, to discover that all of their staff goes home at 5:30pm every night! What would you do after you, being critically ill, checked into a hospital only to discover all of the nurses go home at 5:30 and you are left to your own devices until 7:00 am the next morning?


Please come back, I will be writing much more very soon...