Re: How the Doctor Almost Killed Her Dog

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Woud Dr Epstein have taken a medical intended for vertinary use? What was this ditz thinking here?

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

lin

From: cyberspacedevil <cyberspacedevil@...>Flu Sent: Mon, January 24, 2011 7:17:32 AMSubject: [Flu] How the Doctor Almost Killed Her Dog

How the Doctor Almost Killed Her DogBy RANDI HUTTER EPSTEIN, M.D....I gave him some high-dose ibuprofen. It was in the medicine cabinet, left over from my son's root canal.I am a doctor — a people one — so I know quite a bit about medicine. Little did I know how little I knew about veterinary medicine.Over the course of about a day and half, I had given Dexter three 600-milligram pills. He stopped limping, but also stopped eating, and for the first time in his life, he wet himself during the night. He then flooded the hallway with urine as he ran for the door in the morning.That's when I called the veterinarian's office. It was Sunday, and I left a message saying that it wasn't an emergency, but perhaps Dexter should be seen on Monday.The phone rang immediately. It was my veterinarian. She told me to get Dexter to an animal hospital. Right away.That's when I learned that ibuprofen, the key ingredient

in Motrin, poisons dogs. After a seven-day stay in the intensive care unit, ultrasound exams and a big bottle of take-home medicine, I brought Dexter home, along with a $3,000 vet bill... http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/how-the-doctor-almost-killed-her-dog/

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Hi , LOL.

And then there are the stories about poor people who eat--and the NY Times Food

Critic Review of the taste of--dog and cat foods.

Well, the doc did pay a big price for this.

What has surprised me is that while there is some medical care available for

poor people, there seems to be no medical care available for pets whose owners

are poor.

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> Woud Dr Epstein have taken a medical intended for vertinary use?  What was

this

> ditz thinking here?

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> There never was a good war or a bad peace.

> lin