Before my experience at the Northeast Vet Clinic today, I would probably have given them 3 stars. I have been bringing my dog here for just over a year, and have been unimpressed with the services, bu... Read More
Before my experience at the Northeast Vet Clinic today, I would probably have given them 3 stars. I have been bringing my dog here for just over a year, and have been unimpressed with the services, but felt like I could put up with the impersonal service until our next move in a year or so. Then I brought my dog in today for a Bordatella booster, arriving at 3:40pm for our 3:45pm appointment, and didn't leave until 5:10pm. Yes, I waited almost an hour and a half to be seen for 5 minutes, and I had an appointment. I was told, after I had been waiting for almost an hour, that I should expect to wait for up to 30 minutes due to the possibility of emergencies. I understand appointments running 5-10 minutes late, but my dog did not get seen for over an hour. This alone is enough to make me change vets, but what I saw while I was waiting makes me sick, and why I am writing this review:While waiting in the main waiting room, a vet came to give test results to a young couple with a puppy. Instead of taking them somewhere private, the vet flatly said, with no bedside manner, that this puppy needed an expensive blood transfusion and antibiotics or it would die. They could do the transfusion, or euthanize. She said it coldly, and more importantly, out in the open...not even giving this couple a quiet, private space to discuss the options. This was bad enough, but it gets worse. Unfortunately, the couple had to choose to euthanize, and it happened in one of the main exam rooms off the waiting room. When the couple finished saying their goodbyes and left, through no fault of theirs, the door to the exam room did not close, and the poor puppy could be seen laying lifeless on the exam table for a full minute or so until a tech came to remove the body. I will not be returning to a business that does not respect me or my time, and I must speak out against businesses that do not give more respect to life and death matters. Read Less