Veterinary Medical Associates

kathy burbank (20.05.2016 18:53)
Great Doctors and employees!

Marge Umsted (10.03.2016 21:10)
This is THE PLACE to be. Staff and Drs. are incredible!

Jaime Brown (04.10.2015 11:32)
First of all, they are the only exotic vets in town. Thank God Dr. Kahler & Dr. Wort are 2 of the finest vets I have ever encountered. I have multiple elderly pets of various species (dogs, cats, rats) with complicated health issues as well as a new puppy. The practice offers a fabulous puppy package ($400-$440, all-inclusive). And Dr. Kahler has seen my beloved 9 year old Dachshund, Emilee safely through several big health scares. Dr. Kahler also does a fabulous job treating my rats (which I have found is rare) & gives the same respect to the exotic babies that he does to dogs & cats. The vets & the staff are some of the most loving & compassionate people.
I have a background in both human medicine (RN) & animal rescue (9 years), so I am not easy to please. I have walked out of many vets in my time. But I can wholeheartedly reccommend this practice. In fact, I have only ever found 1 other vet in my life I could reccommend as highly (and he retired).

Bret Hartman (19.09.2014 01:28)
I have two Amazon Parrots. Both are Rescues. One had some serious medical Issues.
I am not a fan of going to vets that do not specialize in Parrots or exotic birds. Parrots can
be tricky. It can take a specialist to help a parrot. I have found the staff and Dr. Kahler to be absolutely FANTASTIC. More than that, my birds know people immediately. They are sensitive to people who don't appreciate parrots. My birds have attacked people they don't like. They are very aggressive towards my sister. However, my birds are calm around VMA staff. This tells me much. Not only is the staff very competent, but, they like animals and my birds know it. My bird is recovering. My bird is a difficult situation since she came out of a very bad environment that fed her candy, chain smoked, and hand raised her improperly and she has stunted growth. Thank you Dr. Kahler and VMA associats. We have a long way to go. but, VMA KNOWS THEIR STUFF.
I would give them 10 stars if I could.

I also read the review by the person who took their dog to the vet.
I will defend Dr. Kahler. INFORMATION is everything. Information wins wars and medical battles.
I don't have allot of money. I talked with the staff and we worked at trying to resolve the problem within a reasonable budget. But without tests, the doctor doesn't have much to work with.
We did an Xray and started from there. Bills have added up. But no unnecessary tests have been performed. Tests that were asked for upon my first visit, eventually were done. And, wallah, issues were found and treated.
Just because the Dr. Wanted to do surgery, doesn't make him a fraud. Fraud is a form of Malice with intent to do harm. It is the responsibility of the pet owner to decide if they are going to throw bottomless pits full of money at the problem or to see what can be done within a budget the owner is willing to live with.
I don't know why Dr. Kahler diagnosed the dog with an abscess. The dog owner didn't state why.
Were there Xrays?
Did the infection appear to be life threatening?
I have severe sinus problems, Deviated septum.
I know how life threatening infections in the eye and sinus area can be.
There is too much information missing from the dog owner's story to take it as credible.

My bird, Louie, is a long way from being perfectly healthy.
I will followup with this as things progress.
Though the expenses have been more than would have liked to spend,
Tests that were requested up front were done a month later and were indeed
necessary.
Pets are like humans.
Want to gamble, don't do tests and let nature take its course.
Do tests. Some will be positive, some negative. But, the
tests help to find the problems.
Until Star Trek Medical scanners are invented, this is how things are done.

Howard Artom (09.04.2014 07:50)
We went to Veterinary Medical Associates and seen Dr. Kahler after our female dog became infected with a bacteria in her eye after being spayed. Upon examining her eye his diagnoses was she needed surgery because there was an abscess behind the eye that was transmitted from her surgery. He wanted us to leave her there for an operation that would cost $1600. She also had difficulty opening her mouth and he claimed that her it was due to the abscess and when she opened her mouth it therefore put pressure on the infection. He gave her an antibiotic injection to prepare her for surgery but we opted not to leave her there overnight. Upon arriving home we noticed that her eye was almost completely and her mouth appeared to be recovering as well. I called to cancel the surgery and asked if we can continue the treatment with antibiotics. He reluctantly agreed as he said that the abscess behind the eye could not reached with medication and he still wanted to operate.

The antibiotics worked perfectly. When we returned her for a checkup Dr. Kahler admitted that his diagnoses was wrong since the alleged abscess was indeed neutralized without surgery. Along with our female we brought our male dog who had no major issues except for a minor ear infection as well as a small amount of pus around his eyes. For him we merely wanted to continue the eye drops we had been giving him when we were clients of our previous veterinarian. Without explaining why he did numerous tests on our male dog disregarding our authorization and not explaining the fees. He then charged us $704 and, of course, our dog had no health issues as we already had learned from our previous vet.

As far as Dr. Kahler is concerned, I find it deplorable that a doctor would suggest surgery on a dog who had a minor problem. Her condition was obliviously treatable with medication. Wanting to rush into something as delicate and costly as surgery is quite disingenuous and, subsequently, charging us for multiple unnecessary tests without informing us as to their costs reaffirms our suspicions of fraudulent activity on Dr. Kahler's part.

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