Melbourne Hospital Admits Cat And Dog Cancer Patients
IN Australia, the people and the animals are as one:
A MAJOR Melbourne hospital has been treating pet animals as private cancer patients in secret after-hours appointments. The Alfred struck a deal with at least one vet to treat cats and dogs with its multi-million-dollar radiation therapy machines in 2001.
So reports the Herald Sun. The paw loves…
About 100 animals are treated at the Southern Animal Referral Centre in Highett each year, centre spokesman Mark Amott says.
He said animals being treated in human medical centres was a closely guarded industry secret.
“There is nothing under-handed about it from the veterinary side of things, but they really have to sneak them in,” he said.
“You see a dog on a (radiation) machine and people complain about it. They think it’s unclean.”
You see a dog tied to a radiator and people comnplain. You just can’t win…
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October 6th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Paging Doctor Bob…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnhd5HougzM
October 6th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Whole system has gone to the dogs
October 6th, 2008 at 1:59 am
All jokes aside - and they are good ones - but there is a large waiting list at the hospital for people wanting this kind of treatment. Finding out that the hospital can do after hours appointments for animals while humans wait in line for weeks and months on end has naturally made some people very angry.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
The joke in full.
A man runs into the vet’s office carrying his dog, screaming for help. The vet rushes him back to an examination room and has him put his dog down on the examination table. The vet examines the still, limp body and after a few moments tells the man that his dog, regrettably, is dead.
The man, clearly agitated and not willing to accept this, demands a second opinion. The vet goes into the back room and comes out with a cat and puts the cat down next to the dog’s body. The cat sniffs the body, walks from head to tail poking and sniffing the dog’s body and finally looks at the vet and meows. The vet looks at the man and says, “I’m sorry, but the cat thinks that your dog is dead too.”
The man is still unwilling to accept that his dog is dead. The vet brings in a black Labrador. The lab sniffs the body, walks from head to tail, and finally looks at the vet and barks. The vet looks at the man and says, “I’m sorry, but the lab thinks your dog is dead too.”
The man, finally resigned to the diagnosis, thanks the vet and asks how much he owes. The vet answers, “$650.” “$650 to tell me my dog is dead?” exclaimed the man…. “Well,” the vet replies, “I would only have charged you $50 for my initial diagnosis. The additional $600 was for the cat scan and lab tests.”
October 5th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Swine.
I was about to steal a joke from the Forum side…
October 5th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Lab tests and Cat scans?
October 5th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Bonzo
I take it you are having problems with the human element?
October 5th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Because people are irrational, June; not exactly breaking news.
I don’t know whether they let infection control specialists near the dogs, or indeed near the machines, but Western cultures like to believe that the 18th century not only liberated us all from the tyranny of superstition, but heralded the bright dawn of the Age of Reason.
We put a man on the moon so we can make documentaries about how we didn’t put a man on the moon, and we have mind-blowingly wonderful technology to let us watch Mystic Meg telling us what the numbers on the Lottery won’t be.
Papers like the Grauniad publish long and concerned articles about the belief in magic in Africa, apparently oblivious to the fact that half of their classified ads are aimed at people who believe in magic in England.
And people in Melbourne think that radiotherapy machines can be polluted by taboo objects otherwise known as dogs…
October 5th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
i have heard about mixed wards but this is taking it too far
October 5th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Seriously , what is the problem? why shouldn’t they?
We were unfortunate enough to witness the average Saturday at the local ED, and people complain that animals are allowed in?
Galling