DODGY Veterinarians

BAD VETERINARIANS: MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE:

TRANSCERVICAL INSEMINATIONS OF MY DOG AT GREENBANK VETERINARY SERVICES LTD. AND CRESTWOOD VETERINARY CENTRE BOTH RESULTED IN NO PUPS. THE EXPENSIVE SEMEN CAME FROM A TWO TIME WINNER OF THE BRITISH RETRIEVER CHAMPIONSHIP. A SUBSEQUENT TCI WAS SUCCESSFUL IN RED DEER CLINIC SHOWING THERE WAS NO FERTILITY PROBLEM WITH MY FEMALE LABRADOR RETRIEVER.

WITH GREENBANK VETERINARY SERVICES LTD. I WATCHED THE WHITISH SEMEN BACKFLOW OUT OF THE UTERUS AND HEARD THE VETERINARIAN SAY TO THE TECHNICIAN, "NOT SO FAST" AS THE MONITOR SCREEN WAS WASHED OUT WHEN THE SEMEN FLOWED OVER THE CAMERA LENS.

WITH CRESTWOOD VETERINARY CENTRE, THE TECHICIAN REFUSED TO DO A PROGESTERONE BLOOD DRAW ON THE FOLLOWING DAY AS I INDICATED I WANTED DONE.

ACCORDING TO DR GARY ENGLAND, PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE VETERINARY REPRODUCTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM ENGLAND, INSEMINATION SHOULD BE DONE ONE DAY AFTER PROGESTERONE VALUES EXCEED 8-10.0 NG/ML (25.0-32 NMOL/L).

CRESTWOOD VETERINARY CENTRE DID THE INSEMINATION TWO DAYS AFTER A VALUE OF 31.8 NMOL/L.

GREENBANK VETERINARY SERVICES LTD. DID THE INSEMINATION TWO DAYS AFTER A VALUE OF 10.47 NG/ML.

PRETTY UNPROFESSIONA IN MY OPINION.

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DETAILS OF VETERINARY BUNGLED TCI

DURING A TRANSCERVICAL INSEMINATION PROCEDURE ON FEBRUARY 8TH, 2014, USING THAWED FROZEN SEMEN, AT GREENBANK VETERINARY SERVICES LTD., THE VETERINARY TECHNICIAN BOTCHED THE INSTILLING OF THE SEMEN.

DURING THE COMPLAINT PROCESS THROUGH THE ALBERTA VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (ABVMA), GREENBANK VETERINARY SERVICES MADE A NUMBER OF DOCUMENTED CLAIMS ABOUT THE PROCEDURE, WHICH I BELIEVE ARE FACTUALLY INCORRECT, AND COUNTER TO ACCEPTED AND TRAINED STEPS IN THE TRANSCERVICAL (TCI) PROCEDURE.

GREENBANK VETERINARY SERVICES STATED THAT THEY ALWAYS DO IT THIS WAY, A DEFENCE LAWYER TACTIC TO CREATE THE IMPRESSION THAT THINGS WORKED DOING IT THIS WAY IN THE PAST, SO SHOULD NOT BE WRONG THIS TIME.

I AM UNABLE TO ACCESS CLIENTS TO DETERMINE IF THIS IS IN FACT TRUE, SO I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY FEEDBACK FROM ANYONE HAVING A TCI PROCEDURE DONE ON THEIR DOG, WITH THAWED FROZEN SEMEN, ON A SATURDAY MORNING AT GREENBANK VETERINARY SERVICES LTD IN EDMONTON, AB. IT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU DID NOT ENCOUNTER THE SAME TREATMENT THAT DR GREENBANK AND DR. RIVAS CLAIM THEY ALWAYS DO.

THE CLAIMS ARE AS FOLLOWS, ALONG WITH ACCEPTED STEPS AS STATED BY DR. MARTHINA GREER DVM IN HER BOOK, AND INDICATED BY MINI TUBE AS BEING VERY MUCH WHAT THEY TEACH IN THEIR INSTRUCTIONAL SEMINARS:

1. DR GREENBANK STATED FOR WEEKEND IMPLANTS (INSEMINATIONS) WHELPING DATES DETERMINATION IS DONE EARLY THE NEXT WEEK.

2. (I HAD ARGUED THAT THE STAFF FORGOT TO PROVIDE THESE DATES PRIOR TO ME LEAVING THE CLINIC ON THE DAY OF THE TCI INSEMINATION. I IN FACT RECEIVED THE WHELPING DATE AT 9 A.M.THE MONDAY FOLLOWING THE PROCEDURE. 8 DAYS LATER, WHEN THE OFFICE MANAGER RETURNED FROM HOLIDAYS, I COMPLAINED ABOUT THE PROCEDURE BEING BOTCHED AND NO WHELPING, ULTRASOUND, OR XRAY DATES. THE OFFICE MANAGER CALLED BACK, APOLOGIZED FOR NO DATES AND SAID SHE WOULD SEND THEM. THIS IS HOW DR. GREENBANK ARRIVED AT HER EXCUSE. IT IS MY BELIEF THAT DATES ARE GIVEN AT THE TIME SATURDAY TCI'S ARE DONE. WHAT IS YOUR EXPERIENCE?) MEDICAL RECORDS SHOWED THE DATES HAD BEEN ENTERED INTO THE FILE ON THE DAY OF THE TCI.

3. DR. GREENBANK STATED THAT ON SATURDAYS SHE ALWAYS HAS TWO TECHNICIANS AND A RECEPTIONIST WORKING.

4. (DURING MY DOG'S PROCEDURE THERE WAS ONLY ONE TECHNICIAN AND ONE CLIENT CARE PERSON, BESIDES THE RECEPTIONIST.WHAT IS YOUR EXPERIENCE FOR A SATURDAY TCI AT GREENBANK?)

5. DR GREENBANK STATED THAT TCI'S AND SURGICAL IMPLANATS (SI) ARE ALWAYS DONE AT THE END OF THE DAY AFTER CLIENTS HAVE BEEN SEEN ON SATURDAYS.

6. DR MARITZABEL RIVAS DVM STATED TO THE COC THAT "IN EVERY CASE CLIENTS ARE BROUGHT INTO THE HALL WHERE THEY WAIT UNTIL THE EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENT IS PROPERLY SECURED AND READY FOR USE AND CABLES ARE NOT IN THE WAY."

7. (ACCORDING TO DR GREER AND MINI TUBE, THIS EQUIPMENT MUST BE READY PRIOR TO ALL ELSE. THE TECH APPEARED SURPRISED THAT THE EQUIPMENT WAS IN THE HALLWAY. )

8. DR. RIVAS CONFIRMED THAT SHE ALWAYS SAYS "NOT SO FAST" TO THE TECHNICIAN DURING INSTILLATION OF THE FIRST PORTION OF THAWED SEMEN.

9. (MY COMPLAINT WAS THAT "NOT SO FAST" WAS STATED AFTER THE WHITISH SEMEN FLOWED BACKWARD OUT OF THE UTERUS AND OBSCURED THE CAMERA LENS IN THE ENDOSCOPE. THE SEMEN WAS ALREADY LOST WHEN "NOT SO FAST" WAS ISSUED, AS THIS IS A PAST TENSE STATEMENT. I WOULD BE VERY SURPRISED IF MOST PEOPLE HEAR THIS STATEMENT WHEN IN ATTENDANCE TO PARTAKE AND WITNESS THE TCI ON THEIR DOG. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOUR EXPERIENCE WAS.)

10. IN A WRITTEN STATEMENT TO THE COC, DR GREENBANK CLAIMED TO BE CERTIFIED BY ICSB TO PERFORM TCI INSEMINATIONS.

11. (I POINTED OUT TO THE COC COMMITTEE THAT THIS WAS FACTUALLY INCORRECT AND THAT DR GREENBANK ONLY HAD A CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION IN A TRAINING SESSION THAT MINI TUBE HOLDS FOR PEOPLE BUYING THEIR INSEMINATION EQUIPMENT. I FURTHER STATED THAT DR GREENBANK ONLY TRAINED ON TWO DOGS.)

12. DR GREENBANK THEN STATED THAT SHE WENT TO THE U.S. WHERE SHE TOOK THE MINI TUBE TRAINING ON TWO DOGS.

13. (DR GREENBANK ONLY GOT A PARTICIPATION CERTIFICATE. IT WAS NOT A PROFICIENCY IN THE PROCEDURE AS NO TESTING WAS DONE, WHICH ONE EXPECTS IF A CERTIFICATE IS ISSUED TO PERFORM A PROCEDURE.) HAS ANYONE HEARD DR GREENBANK CLAIM TO BE CERTIFIED TO PERFORM TCI'S?

14. GREENBANK VETERINARY SERVICES LTD. DOES NOT FOLLOW SEVERAL TCI PROCEDURE STEPS AS THEY APPEAR IN DR. MARTHINA GREER'S BOOK AND WHICH ARE VERY MUCH WHAT MINI TUBE TEACHES IN THEIR TRAINING SESSIONS ACCORDING TO MANAGEMENT AT MINI TUBE HEADQUARTERS.

15. ERRONEOUS TCI STEPS BY GREENBANK ARE:

16. -FAILURE TO SET UP EQUIPMENT AHEAD OF TIME.

17. -THAWING SEMEN TOO EARLY AND NOT JUST PRIOR TO USE AFTER CATHETER IS IN UTERUS, (DR GREER, MINI TUBE AND PROFESSOR GARY ENGLAND DVM OF NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY, U.K. ALL AGREE)

18. -NOT INSTILLING THE SEMEN IN SLOWLY AND GENTLY, CAUSING BACK FLOW AND LOSS

19. -THE ENDOSCOPIC EQUIPMENT USED HAD NOT BEEN DRIED PROPERLY AND DROPS OF LIQUID EXITED PRIOR TO INSERTION INTO VAGINA.

20. VIEW DR. GREER'S CORRECT STEPS UNDER TRANSCERVICAL INSEMINATION SHOWN HERE.

PLEASE SEND YOUR FEEDBACK ON YOUR EXPERIENCE AT GREENBANK VET, TO THIS SITE'S CONTACTS OR AS BELOW.

REGARDS,

TOM

P.S.

I ALSO HAD A FAILED TRANSCERVICAL INSEMINATION PROCEDURE AT CRESTWOOD VETERINARY CLINIC LTD., EDMONTON, AB., AFTER THE TECHNICIAN REFUSED TO DO A PROGESTERONE BLOOD DRAW I WANTED DONE. THIS DAY TURNED OUT TO BE THE SUPPOSED OVULATION DAY. AS A CONSEQUENCE THE PROCEDURE WAS DONE LATE AS INDICATED BY THE IDEXX GUIDANCE FOR LEVELS OVER 30 NMOLS. I PAY FOR THE BLOOD DRAWS, NO DAMAGE IS CAUSED BY 24 HOUR BLOOD DRAWS INSTEAD OF 48 HOUR BLOOD DRAWS, SO I SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REFUSED.

DR. LINDE-FORSBERG DVM HAS DETERMINED BY RESEARCH, THAT PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVELS CAN FLUCTUATE AS MUCH AS 20 TO 40 PERCENT ON A NON DIURNAL BASIS.