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Our experience with Zazman Medivet and Hendon Medivet ( their affiliate hospital ) has cost us the life of our beautiful heal... Read More
Please read this review before considering bringing your dog or cat here:
Our experience with Zazman Medivet and Hendon Medivet ( their affiliate hospital ) has cost us the life of our beautiful healthy dog - Willow. Bringing Willow to Medivet will always be my biggest regret in life. She got extremely sick after being treated there and unfortunately never recovered.
The experience we had with both of the Medivet practices has been truly horrific; from negligence, unprofessionalism, dishonesty, lied to, lied about, acting against our instructions, being taken advantage of to lack of informed consent.
As part of a multination corp, they push you to give vaccines to your dogs and cats saying that they are core vaccines that are due, which is not the case, they are actually optional vaccines which they will never tell you! Our dog got critically ill just a few days after receiving a double vaccine which was only 2 weeks after her receiving her rabies vaccine. Prior to these vaccines, she was given a full bill of health. Willow spent almost a week at their Hendon hospital and unfortunately passed away 5 days later.
When we queried the correlation between the vaccine and Willows death it was instantly shut down, denied and judged impossible. We also got laughed at by a vet at Hendon Medivet called ‘Tashy’ claiming we are ‘not educated enough to understand’. After a lack of informed consent surrounding the vaccines, being lied to, lied about ourselves on our dogs medical history to cover any liability and being abused by the vet ‘Tashy’ at Hendon Medivet, we had enough and had to ask for this vet to be removed from Willow’s case due to serious concerns about her ability to care for our dog. This was not only conveniently not added to the medical history but also replaced by awful unacceptable lies about us.
After dealing with this traumatic experience and losing the life of our beloved pup, they finally sent the autopsy report over email with an immediate threat of sending debt collector to us if we don’t pay the full bill by the following day. We were originally offered a payment plan and had been proactive in getting this set up, 3 weeks prior this threatening email we asked for the process to start our payment plan, which they never replied to. We have since had to send a formal complaint to medivet to report both Zazman Hampstead and Hendon Medivet for negligence, unprofessionalism, lack of informed consent and dishonesty. They still haven’t gotten back to us.
We have been in touch with the Royal Veterinary College of Surgeons who, after hearing our experiences, recommended we file a report and to contact their VCMS team due to concerns about negligence, dishonesty, lack of informed consent and unprofessionalism.
We sent a formal complaint to Medivet to report both Zazman Medivet Hampstead and Hendon Medivet for negligence, unprofessionalism, lack of informed consent and dishonesty. They still haven’t gotten back to us over two weeks later.
The Royal Veterinary College of Surgeons, the Veterinary worlds overseer, are due to launch an investigation into both practices.
Please if you care about your pet do not bring them here. Go to an independent vet that isn’t owned by Medivet. I wish I knew. My dog would most likely be alive if she had been treated by a vet that actually has years of experience and genuinely care about animal wellbeing. I would hate to know that another dog / pet owner will go through what we are currently going through. Read Less