First off, good on Mrs. P for following up. That's the only way stuff like this gets resolved and bad vets get chased. It pisses me off when I find 'followups' that didn't happen. That is inexcusable.
Back in the 90s sometime my Dad and his family sold a farm in Washington State. It had a complication, part of it was originally homesteaded by his father. His brother and sister were both gone so the easy way was for him to physically go to Washington to release that homestead. Otherwise all the next generation would have had to sign off on it. No problem. Until he had a stroke. So as soon as he was medically cleared to ride I flew to Yuma to drive them home.
His cardiologist insisted that he have an internist waiting on him. Just so happens I knew one, one of the finest doctors I have ever met. Anyway, the day we were to leave we had to stop at the Cardiologists office to pick up his most recent records to hand deliver. No problem.
I had my Mom and Dad in the car and ran into the office to get the records as soon as they were open. I went to the front desk and the receptionist said the doctor wanted to see me. I shuffled my feet and explained that my folks were in the car and the doctor appeared. She gave me the finger wave to follow, and I did. She ducked into her office and shut the door. We didn't sit and she got right at it. "You need to sue that butcher that changed your father's prescription (warfin) with out following up. He just damn near killed him". This nice looking woman dropped a couple f bombs, mentioned that is the only way to get bad doctors out of practice and said she had to go.
They decided that the doctor was a really nice guy and declined. Two pacemakers and Alzheimer's followed. I can't prove it, but....
When I moved to Yuma there was a business on the main drag (4th Avenue) named 'Dead Doctors Don't Lie'. It was a health food store run by a woman that had a bone to pick with the medical community :)
Once again, thanks for your SBI initative. It really is a good thing.
That is a shame about your father and even if filing suit wasn't what your Father and Mother wanted to do even just a complaint to the board of medicine may have been in order to start an investigation.
We should have done it and the second vet wanted to send Percie to have Texas A&M University for an autopsy that he said he would make sure that we wouldn't have to pay for but the girls didn't want him cut up, the just wanted to take him back home and bury him next to his brother.
That second vet may very well have initiated something with the vet board of medicine for all we know, I just know that it appears at least someone did. We dropped the ball by not doing it and that was bad on our part.
I like that name of that business and I remember that there have been numerous doctors that had some "mysterious" "accidental" deaths but just can't think of what it was that exactly it was in reference too at the moment but it seems like it was some medicine that was being investigated and the number of doctors was around eight or so that ended up dying. So that name, Dead Doctors Don't Lie, has some truth to it for sure.