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| - I have been going to this veterinarian with my dogs for approximately 20 years. I used to love this place back when doctor Campbell worked here. She was a great Vet. and then subsequently we found doctor Crissetto who was decent and caring, and doctor Gross there is an excellent surgeon! That said, the quality has gone down substantially. Doctor Yach performed surgery on my 11 and a 1/2 year old dog with a spindle cell tumor that he probably would have out lived, and he had gone through a removal of a Transitional carcinoma that was life saving, by Dr. Campbell, followed by healing from a torn ACL, and would have outlived the growth of the spindle cell tumor as he was already 11 & a 1/2 but the surgery killed him. Next, Brought my cat in one day when she was quite lethargic and she was approximately 22 years old thin as a rail. I assumed she was dying but thought she would perk up with some fluids and maybe get another good day so my cats lying on the exam table and doctor Haggerty comes in and says she needs her teeth cleaned. I looked at her aghast and said "she's dying, can you help her feel better? what would you do for your grandmother? Can you please give her an IV of some fluids and help her feel better something palative?" So that's what they did and my little Kitty came home and was able to spend 1 more day visiting her favorite people and places and dog friends and eating a nice meal and she died the next morning, which I figured was going to happen, but the doctor wanted to clean her teeth! Are you kidding me? I couldn't believe it. So just last week I bring in 1 of my dogs who is now 9 and a 1/2 years old who has had a couple of stumbling episode's that looked like he was having some back pain. So he sees doctor Haggerty who gives him some Anti-inflammatory Carprofen, and said check it out try it for a week and see how he does so he was good on the Carprofen no problems as soon as the Carprofen ran out he had another episode so we brought him back this time we got doctor Billingsley. She looked him over and said let's do some blood work, so a week later we get a call that his blood work is good except for he has low T4 levels so she diagnoses him with hypothyroidism and is ready to place him on synthetic thyroid medication for the rest of his life based upon a T4 panel alone without even taking into consideration that he's on a Carprofen, which can lower your T4 levels. And he has NO Sympoms! No weight gain, no dull coat, no skin problems, no hair loss, nothing. So I ask her about some natural form of stimulating his thyroid and she didn't know what I was talking about! She said she never heard of such a thing, so I go and look it up on the Internet and I'm reading from W. Jean Dodds DVM. veterinarian, a paper and case study about interpreting the and diagnosing canine thyroid and she says highlighted in yellow veterinarians should not use the T4 alone as the 1st screening test for hypothyroidism, if the T4 is low you will not know whether the values are accurate without performing additional tests. if it's normal you may miss the diagnosis altogether, because there could be an antibody preventing you from even seeing it. The holistic approach is to prescribe a glandular such as Nature-Throid, Thyroid USP, and Armour Thyroid. and the cofactors tyrosine and iodine in the right dosages for your dog as a preventative and if there's still some thyroid function that you can save she likes to use thyroid glandulars early on in thyroid gland exhaustion, mild insufficiency, or borderline low results. If a dog's thyroid has retired early, meaning it's no longer capable of producing any thyroid hormones at all, then the next choice is to replace thyroid hormones T3 and T4 with perscription glandulars such as Nature-Throid Thyroid USP or Armor Thyroid. Those are natural thyroid extract and then monitor the response it's also important to address the patient's diet in particular iodine and Tyrosine intake. Dr. Billingsley acted like I was speaking a foreign language and told me to go ask a holistic Dr. So obviously they don't practice any holistic medicine. That said, I think it's really important to have a doctor that is knowledgeable in both holistic or integrated veterinary medicine as well as be an excellent conventional Vet. She did say that if you want to make sure it's the correct diagnosis that there were further tests that you can ask for but that they cost a $180. But she would not have mentioned that had I not questioned what test she used to make her diagnosis. So I guess she assumed it's better to just put a dog on a lifetime medication of a synthetic hormone before actually making sure you have a correct diagnosis, unless the care givers ask for further testing as if we all would know that we should do that. Very disappointed very disappointed.
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