Letters: Puzzling essay provides perspective  Letters: Puzzling
essay provides perspective  Mar 01, 2012 By dvm360.com staff
While I was tutoring reading to third graders, a teacher gave me
the following essay. Its author and origin are unknown. I found
it interesting and thought my colleagues might, too.  Two
different doctors' offices  The first patient is examined within
the hour, is x-rayed the same day, and has time booked for
surgery the following week.  The second patient sees his family
doctor after waiting three weeks for an appointment, then waits
eight weeks to see a specialist, then gets an x-ray, which isn't
reviewed for another week, and finally has his surgery scheduled
for six months from then.  Why the different treatment for the
two patients?  The first is a golden retriever. The second is a
senior citizen.  Ed Wolff, DVM Stevensville, Montana