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In Loving Memory Of Luna
Learn from Sweet Baby Luna
Sweet, Loving, Luna
Jan 2011 - Jan 2012
This sweet baby, was born and passed away within a year. Luna is one of Happy and Landscapes pups. Luna is no longer with the family that she loved and that loved her to pieces. Luna's family has suffered the panic, the dread, the agony of waiting and now the horrifying knowledge and realization of malpractice.
This has been a tragic loss! Please, if you are reading this, say prayers for them and say a prayer for Luna too. We know Luna is fine now but her family is not.
I told Luna's Mom, Tina, that I would make a page for Luna to help inform everyone that comes across this site about Malpractice. Malpractice, it's not only about people.
Please, think of Luna and her family when you think about your Vet and evaluate the confidence level that you have. Do you think the Vet is great or do you think he/she/they really should only have a shot clinic?
Think about what you would do if you were told that your pup needed surgery or they would die? If you would rather go to another doctor, I would suggest you do that, now! Get another doctor before anything happens and you need a doctor that you would put your lifes trust in.
Let me say one thing, if your pet has not been hit by a car and is not bleeding profusely get more opinions. I believe it is necessary to have a 2nd and 3rd opinion.
When there is bleeding involved, I know there may be no time to get stable and move on. If there is time, do it, it pays off.
We have to trust our doctors, but who is watching them???
Who is watching out for us and our pets???
Doctors: We need to be able to believe that they know what they are doing. My advice, before you go to one, if you have not had that doctor for years or if you are getting a new one. Before you go, Call and ask...
1) Where did they go to school? Hopefully it will be a University that you know of such as The University of Florida or University of Michigan, for example.
I can tell you from experience it cost let to drive all that way and avoid mistakes.
2) You want a doctor that has been around and knows how how to make a diagnosis. Being a good doctor is being a good clinician.
You want alot of practice!!! You want a good school.
3) Evaluate this office as you would for yourself. Is it clean? Do they know what they are talking about? Is there enough help, do they sound proficient? Do you see the diplomas on the walls, from what school? How long have they been in practice?
You have a big dog will there be someone to help, enough people to help and keep your big dog safe?
The Universities teach, who better and to know they have the lastest technology available.
No, I am not saying a young doctor can not be great and that smaller or unknown schools can not produce good doctors.
I am saying to be cautious, we have to be extra careful. Get the odds on your side. It's a cruel world and a greedy one. When you realize, no one is watching the doctors it becomes very scary.
When it is something routine, I have always had my Vet do it. Once, I had a mistake happen and it cost me my Saint too.
Most of us are good people.....we think people think like we think. I would never dream of doing something if I was not going to do it right. I use to think others thought like that.........wrong!!!
The three starting points again, these are a good beginning.
Please, always get a 2nd, or even a 3rd opinion and never let your pet be operated on without a 2nd or 3rd doctors opinion.
Unless, you know without a doubt surgery is necessary do not let anyone operate. If your Saint Bernard is not going to die take them to another Vet for a second opinion.
Do not let anyone tell you about operating on bones, until you have read about the Growth Plates.
Don't be a Victim of Malpractice!!!
When you have something going on but no one knows what......Go to the University Hospitals if possible. Unless, you have a Vet you know and trust.
I know the drives are far but there are many doctors. Yes, they will protect one another if something goes wrong but they are less likely to make a wrong diagnosis in the beginning. They are teaching, they are experienced and they are training students to diagnose and using the lasted tes.
When it is not a common occurrence and you believe it is an emergency..........get to a doctor and get the pup stable, call the university and go. That is the best advice in the world I can give to any person for themselves and anyone for their pup :)
I have had a sick dog myself, no one knew what was going on, I was all over the place with doctors and no one knew anything. I was able to get to the University of Florida. They saved my baby but if I had not gotten there I would have lost her. The university of Florida doctors helped me, when other doctors didn't have a clue. I met a bad doctor and his mistake had to be corrected. They saved my Mothers from disaster several times and they helped Joe with one phone call and an immediate appointment.
Learn from what others warn you about.
Luna lost her life because of an incompetent Vet, and that doctor should only have a shot clinic. She operated on Luna without being the presenting doctor at least that is what the doctor told me. She had no answers when I called to ask her to test this or that. The doctor had done no tests, only CBC, and she told me "I was thinking about that". The doctor had the nerve to tell me, she didn't know and then said Luna was going to die if she had not done surgery. I told her "not tomorrow she wasn't."
Luna was operated on because they had only xrays and the xrays were negative. The told the family they needed to do exploratory surgery.
Luna had an infection and they did a great deal of unnecessary surgery. Luna, went in because she started acting funny and lost weight. She had a bacterial infection. She had an infection and they did surgery.
Diana, my friend who also raises Saints.........is so familiar with hearing about exploratory surgery from Vets. I also see too many doctors doing things wrong.
Learn From Luna
Always have a Mobile Vet available. Get yourself and your Saint Bernard established just in case. If you can not get to the doctor, they will get to you!!! It's always better to have a 2nd doctor.
Malpractice is not just about people :(
Please, learn from Luna
Thank you,
Jackie
 Rest In Pease, Beloved Luna 
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