You really cannot beat their extended hours and location.
Alta Vista took me and feline companion with alarming eye problem in for a same-day appointment around 9 p.m. and did a good job of making estimates clear and letting me know my options (from low cost to high cost). Though they were closing up shop soon, I did not feel particularly rushed.
The staff was loud, fun and boisterous with each other. I sat nervously in the waiting area while kitty blood was drawn and read a magazine article about Bonnie Hunt, pictured sitting in the passenger seat of a convertible with her dog at the wheel. Freaking LOVE Bonnie Hunt.
Only one other well-dressed young man with amazing high tops and a tiny pup were there that late, along with some guy whose poodle had just had its ass glands milked; it was excitedly rubbing its distended rectum all over the floor and filled the entire room with a war crime-like foul stench.
Doctor M phoned me the next day after lab work was completed and recommended a second test on the existing blood sample. No leukemia or diabetes, thankfully.
I've been referred to an opthamologist -- the doctor sat at his computer and looked up all the information I needed.
Total cost of visit, including medications and lab work: ~$240