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Originally posted by NetRodent
I live in Montreal. My dog was born with misaligned knees so his knee caps would pop out of alignment ever so often.
Last spring he hurt his knee in the park and his kneecap wouldn't go back into position so we took him to the vet. Since this was after hours we took him to the emergency room at the DMV (animal hospital) in dorval. We had to wait maybe half an hour to see a vet.
By this time his kneecap had gone back into place on its own. The vet took a look at his knee, proscribed some anti-inflamitory medicine and had us schedual an appointment for x-rays a couple of days later.
On the day he was schedualed for x-rays dropped him off at the DMV in the morning on my way to work and on our way home that night we stopped by to pick him up and get the results. Basically we were told he needed surgery to realign his knee or his knee-popping out incidents would get worse and could lead to arthritis in the joint.
Surgery was schedualed for later that week. We took him on the day of surgery and picked up again the next day (with a collar and leg cast).
All in all the whole proceedure from start to finish for non-critical surgery took about a week and cost a couple thousand dollars.
If was a person who needed this operation instead of a dog, I think we'd still be waiting for surgery. Its pathetic that animals get better and faster care than people do.
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I've shattered my knee cap before. Well I was stuck in the ER with no pain killers and having test performed for about 5 hours that night; my knee cap was put back together the next day in surgery. After the cast came off I was provided with phsyiotherapy for 3 months. In the 4th month I had the pins, wire and screw's removed in surgery and I was out of the hospital the same day.
I'd say I received prompt medical treatment of the highest standard from our health system. Certainly as good as any animal would receive!