"0"^^ . . "3"^^ . . "5"^^ . "1"^^ . "My cat and I came to the oncology clinic for a second opinion about a thymoma. I had copies of several bloodtests, x-rays, and the ultrasound guided, fine needle aspirate report. They confirmed everything the first vet had said. Do bloodwork, a CT scan, and then operate and send the tissue out for review. I declined. The vet we saw said there was no reason to do the bloodwork and the CT scan if we were not going to operate.\n\nThree weeks later I called and asked if they would do a phone consult with a clinic in South Carolina and they refused. They refused for two reasons. First because I had not followed their advice as to how to proceed. Second because they did not have a confirmed diagnosis of thymoma and the only way to get that diagnosis is to do bloodwork, a CT scan, operate and send the removed tissue out for review.\n\nThe vet I spoke to about this was not the vet I saw at the clinic. She was quite snippy about my request. She didn't see the irony in needing to do the operation to confirm the diagnosis.\n\nI was only asking her to make a 5 minute phone call to help my cat. She didn't need to be so hostile about refusing. The SC clinic offers free phone consults to other vets. I would have paid for the U of I vet to call them. I'm very disappointed in them."^^ . "2010-08-27T00:00:00"^^ . .