Coyne's negligence cost us $1,000+ and almost our dogs life.
Take your animals literally ANYWHERE else.
On a Wednesday morning our dog became violently sick. Vomiting 20+ times a day and refusing to eat. Thursday he became sicker, vomiting, not eating, extremely lethargic. We decided to take him to Coyne and they told us to wait it out, it was probably just a bug. They gave him some anti-nausea and appetite stimulant.
Friday night comes around and he is showing zero signs of improvement. He is more lethargic and now has violent diarrhea. We deicide we'll take him in first thing Saturday morning. We go in and Dr. Jasik orders an X-ray immediately. At this point he is concerned about him having a blockage.. X-ray comes back and Jasik says it's PERFECT. Nothing to worry about. He then orders a full blood test/ panel and a pancreatitis test. Again, everything comes back "perfect". He gives our dog fluids, anti-nausea/ anti-diarrhea, more food stimulant and a round of antibiotics. Saturday cost us $1,000. I question what we should do since everything came back normal and clearly something is wrong. He tells us we just need to wait it out.. its probably a food borne illness or could be parasitic. But we just need to wait it out.. bring a stool sample in if he can produce one suitable.
Monday I am able to collect a tiny stool sample, so I drop that off. At this point his health is still declining. He is more and more lethargic, vomiting liver bile, and STILL hasn't ate since Wednesday. Tuesday the parasitic screening comes back negative for anything.
Wednesday comes around and our dog cannot continue to wait this out any longer. It has been 7 days since he's eaten, he is vomiting liver bile regularly, he does nothing but sleep, he is shaking and won't produce a bowel movement. I bring him back to Coyne, Dr. Cuddihy takes an X-ray and immediately schedules an emergency surgery because he has a blockage! I'm shocked and ask how was this missed in the first X-ray... my question is dismissed.
He immediately got the surgery and I decided I would confront them about the negligence once our dog is recovered, as his health is obviously the most pressing matter.
After all is said and done, I come back in and ask to speak to a manger. I inform her of the situation and she says she'll bring in Cuddihy for me to speak with. We paid for a full blood test/panel, pancreatic test, parasite screening, antibiotics, anti-nausea/ diarrhea AFTER an X-ray was taken that clearly showed a blockage in our dogs stomach. Because of the negligence on behalf of Dr Jasik, when we brought him in that Saturday, they should have taken that X-ray and scheduled a surgery right then and there. Instead, our dog was forced to suffer, we had to pay for unnecessary test/ meds and had we listened to Jasik and "waited it out" our dog would have died.
I showed the initial X-ray's to two separate vet techs from different practices AND an instructor from Purdue University and even they were able to spot the blockage in the initial X-ray. Coyne completely failed to take any responsibility for their negligence and nearly cost us our dogs life. They had a million excuses for why it was missed. Claimed it could've been food, except he hadn't eaten in 4 DAYS and was continuously vomiting. Claimed it wasn't shown in the aerial view, they never even took an aerial X-ray the second time right before the surgery. Too bad we were the ones who had to financially foot that mistake and Coyne has zero remorse for us or our dog.
I've always gone to Coyne, as has my family. I will never step foot in that practice again, I suggest you don't either. read more