Vet consult (phone).

[bigmak5]

Does anyone know of very rabbit savvy vets who do phone consults with vets for tough cases? (for no fee.)

[RabbitPam]

I’m not quite clear about what you’re asking. I know that a vet will usually have a fee for a phone consultation with a client, and urge a hands-on exam.
If your vet has seen your bunny and needs a second opinion, they may consult with their own colleague, or if you need an out-of-town second opinion, they may speak to a colleague you heard of elsewhere. Is it that you’re seeing a cat/dog specialist and need an Exotics vet instead? You can check your yellow pages for those listed there and call, but you most likely will need to bring in your bunny for an exam. A good idea if you need to establish with an exotics vet alternative.

[Beka27]

Yes, as Pam said, there are vets who will consult with colleagues. I am not sure how fees factor into that tho. If they charge by time or what… Can you give us more info on what’s going on?

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

We could likely suggest something if we knew more about what you need.
I.e. if your vet is stumped and wants to charge you money to consult with colleagues, we could help you with some suggestions (like trying another vet who will consult for free or smaller fees) etc.

[bigmak5]

i read here that certain vets will help out other vets with hard to solve cases.
http://www.rabbit.org/care/medical-leads.html

I wanna ask my vet to do a phone consult so i”m gathering info (i think my vet follows the hrs website so he is somewhat rabbit savvy but not i guess very rabbit savvy) (My rabbit is around 8 years old. He suffers from upper respiratory infection (sneezing/coughing),ear infection(s),teary eye(s),many small abscesses all over,possibly UTI(in the past it looked like possibly also sludge). The medicines he has been treated with are chloramphenicol (pill)no improvement, ciprofloxacin (oral)no improvement, chloramphenicol eye ointment somewhat worked, azithromycin(oral)seemed to work for his sneezing but after a double treatment he just wouldnt totally recover and with time his sneezing returned full force.also his ear infection didnt respond but after i stopped the treatment the pus in his ears somewhat decreased relatively., baytil otic didn’t work., trimethoprim/sulfamethoxizole (oral)[put him on this after culture and sensitivity] he had been on it for around 2 weeks no improvement.)
He has been battling some of these problems for awhile albeit the first few vets didn’t really do anything i guess they didn’t see it as anything major(the symtoms got worse as time went by). basicly all the antibiotics were started by the latest vet.
Thanks, i hope that clears that up.
Thanks

[Sarita]

One of my vets did a phone consult with these specialists:

http://www.gcvs.com/page14/page10/page10.html

 

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