Are gullible clients being hoodwinked?
Dear Editor, I have stood back from the recurring debate on homoeopathy that has raged through these pages, as I thought the subject was so vacuous as to be not worth wasting the energy of putting pen to paper. But two recent cases highlight the gullibility of clients and how easily they could be hoodwinked. I recently diagnosed a dog with thoracolumbar disc prolapse. It was ambulatory, but with slight hind leg weakness and in some pain. The owners could not afford spinal surgery, nor indeed was the dog in need of any surgical intervention. I prescribed NSAID treatment and advised strict rest for six weeks. I was somewhat disappointed, though hardly surprised, when two weeks later I received a call from the client to say that they had taken the dog to the local “healing” practice. They said that with the application of some holistic therapy, it was better in two weeks not six, and added “so we won’t be coming back to you, thank you”. In another recent case, a GSD bitch with severe EPI,
