How are pet medical accidents generally handled? Who is responsible?

Nov 06,2023
9Min

Characteristics of a pet hospital that practices illegal medicine and is domineering

1. The fake is confused with the real. According to regulations, doctors in pet hospitals must hold veterinary qualification certificates and receive professional training. But in fact, many doctors in clinics have no medical qualifications at all. They don't even recognize pets, but they call themselves chief physicians and professors. These "Mr. Nanguo" often use another kind of injection if it doesn't work, or use a mixture of various medicines to treat a dead horse as a living horse.
2. Shoddy goods. Doctors are trying new ways to blackmail customers by misrepresenting domestically produced medicines as imported. The lowest wholesale price for domestically produced products is only 5 yuan, and the price at pet hospitals is as high as 60 yuan; some hospitals simply use vitamin B and distilled water for injection to give vaccinations to cats and dogs.
3. The asking price is sky-high. Registration costs 30 yuan, conventional medicine plus hanging needles costs 120 yuan, and plaster for fracture radiographs costs 300 yuan... It can range from a few hundred yuan to tens of thousands of yuan. Anyway, there are no standards for charging for these items, and each hospital can charge whatever the price is. In addition, pet hospitals basically do not issue invoices.
4. The internal management of the hospital is chaotic. According to regulations, pet hospitals must hang the business license issued by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau and the animal diagnosis and treatment service license issued by the animal husbandry and veterinary management department in a prominent position in the hospital, but many hospitals only hang one certificate or not at all. Some hospitals have neither diagnosis and treatment certificates nor business licenses.

How to protect the rights of pets in medical malpractice

Regarding this, we specifically consulted a senior lawyer. We also mentioned in our previous article that in our country, pets do not currently have an independent legal status, but are considered to be pets. Property of pet owner. Therefore, disputes surrounding pets are often handled according to the causes of litigation such as "property damage disputes" and "processing contract disputes".
In disputes involving pet medical care, there is often great controversy over the division of the burden of proof and the definition of liability for compensation. In judicial practice, if pet owners believe that pet medical institutions are at fault, they often have to collect evidence themselves. Pet medical care is a very professional field, and ordinary pet owners usually do not have the corresponding knowledge and judgment ability. Therefore, in pet medical disputes, pet owners are often in a passive situation.
The first thing pet owners need to do is to collect evidence and use other methods to collect evidence to prove that the pet died abnormally! When the pet hospital unilaterally fails to cooperate, we can ask the public security department to assist in the investigation!
Even so, considering the particularity of the medical industry, unless it can be proven that the pet hospital has major fault or intentionality, the proportion of general courts ordering financial compensation liability will not be too high.
Secondly, pet owners need to prepare proof of damage to their property. For example: invoices for purchasing pets, invoices for medical expenses for treating pets, bills for other reasonable expenses incurred for treating pets, etc.If the negotiation fails and the lawsuit is filed in court, the court will first confirm the pet owner's property losses based on various types of bills.
The proportion of liability will be determined based on the pet hospital’s admission that a medical accident occurred. But before taking the case to court, lawyers from both sides will generally suggest that the parties try to mediate and resolve the matter, which is the so-called private matter. Nowadays, there are mediation committees in every street, and the Animal Husbandry Bureau, as the competent authority of veterinarians, is generally willing to mediate animal medical disputes. Therefore, litigation is not the only solution to pet medical treatment.

So how can we find a reliable pet hospital?

1. When we search for "pet hospital" on Baidu, if the hospital entry that pops up has the word "promotion" under it, it is a hospital that cooperates with Baidu, and the hospital spends advertising fees to promote it. Some people may think that the smell of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley. If you have money for advertising, you might as well use the money to invest in equipment. However, not all hospitals that advertise to increase their popularity are bad hospitals!
2. Does it take luck to find a really good pet hospital? In the past, there were cases of pet dogs being bathed and suffocated to death... To identify this type of rogue hospital, you need to dig into its dark history and see if it has killed small animals? Are there any issues with high fees? Are you doing charity activities for stray animals?
Personally, I think that hospitals that are willing to use their own medical resources to rescue stray animals are unlikely to be black-hearted hospitals, because black-hearted hospitals put profits first and will not spend money on charity at all.
3. Some netizens also suggested that pets can be taken to the animal husbandry station if they are sick. It is cheap and effective to treat pets at the animal husbandry station.
So is this thing reliable? (Friends who have been to the animal husbandry station are welcome to write your message at the bottom of the article!)
In short, everyone must pay more attention when choosing a hospital in the future, such as consulting more experienced pet raising friends around you to understand where you are. Regional pet hospitals and pet doctors. Prepare lessons in advance and get a general understanding of common inspection items and fees. For conditions that are difficult to diagnose at once, it is best to switch to several hospitals and different doctors for diagnosis, rather than focusing on a certain hospital or doctor.
If you have the conditions, it is best to go to a large hospital. No matter what, we all want our furry children to be healthy. Parents also need to pay more attention to their babies, detect illnesses in time, and treat them as soon as possible.

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