CASE NUMBER #2

SIGNALMENT:

  • Species: Canine
  • Breed: Mixed Breed
  • Age: 12 years
  • Sex: MC

HISTORY:

Your the third veterinarian to see this dog. The complaint is a painful left eye. The owner has been medicating with various ointments and solutions (Triple antibiotic, Gentocin, Gentocin Durafilm®, Terramycin) without improvement over the past 6 weeks. In addition a temporary tarsorraphy has been performed and the eye examined for a foreign body. The owner states that if you cannot help the dog he will euthanize him. He has also spent $400.00 to date and is very unwilling to spend significantly more money.

CLINICAL PHOTO OF THE LEFT EYE


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