Vet Prescription Prices
My Lab recently had to have eye surgery and had it done at an opthamology clinic. I expected the surgery to be expensive but what I didn't expect was the incredible price for very small (0.5 ml) bott...
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dturm wrote:
Eye medications are really a sore subject with me right now.
Just be aware that your vet is probably not ripping you off in this instance, it is just a really volatile, unpredictable market.
Doug, DVM
That's just it. The office manager at my vet's practice, used to be a vet tech. She does all the ordering of meds. I know she spends a lot of time, checking pricing and all, to keep things stocked. She does her best to get the lowest price, but as Doug said, sometimes you are lucky to get what you need at any price. As I said before, there's a lot of turmoil going on in the industry for some time now. Clients see the huge increases and think the vet is gouging them, but that is not necessarily the case.
Knowing all the dog ppl I do, I often hear it from the client's end. I always try to explain it to them, as the vast majority think they are getting raked over the coals.
It's frustrating all around.
