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Scorecard for... Dr. Julie Duval Veterinarian (animal doctor) / Surgeon  Sandy Springs, Georgia
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on 09/19/07 1 responses to this scorecard This scorecard was voted helpful +0 times |
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Dr. Julie Duval was hired to do Left Liver Lobe resection for benign liver cysts. Instead, she opened the more superficial cyst AGAINST MY PRE-OPERATIVE DIRECTIVE and left the engorged liver lobe and the other large cysts that compressed the Left Hepatic Duct which FORCED BILE TO DRAIN INTO MY DOGS BELLY! She claimed the tumor was unresectable after 2+hr. However, when the Path returned as BENIGN she wanted to re-operate to remove the tumor-at full surgical fees! Get paid twice and do the surgery once. This is fraud. She charged my charge card WITHOUT MY SIGNATURE for surgery that SHE DID NOT DO. This is also fraud. We no longer trusted her so a different vet did the 2nd surgery and resected the OBVIOUSLY BENIGN tumor in 10min! A biopsy had been unnecessary. But because Duval left BILE TO DRAIN into the belly [from the cyst that she opened] my dog died from peritonitis. This is negligent! And it is unsound surgical protocol! The peritonitis caused his GI tract to shut down so My dog died starving to death with his insides on fire! These photo's were taken the day before surgery. His starting weight was 22 lbs. He died weighing 13 including the 3-4 lb tumor. He died having lost 60% of his weight and it was all avoidable! She deliberately left in my dog a tumor that was obviously BENIGN and easily resected so that she could charge twice the surgical fees. She placed money over her ethical and professional responsibilities, and jeopardized an animals' life in the process. She violated her oath! The Georgia State Board of Veterinary Medicine is doing a thorough investigation. If you have a complaint with the service your received from Dr. Julie Duval contact the Board 478-207-2440. Statements made to me by staff and other clients indicate to me that this happens routinely. If you wish to pursue this legally, contact me at casutton@ellijay.com. But first contact the Board and make your complaint official. Also, the DA will pursue criminal intent if we get a few more cases. This Vet is much worse than Michael Vick because she is a trusted Veterinary professional who hides behind her position. Her actions diminish the good work done by other Vets and it diminishes public trust. She needs to be stopped.
 
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I am truly sorry for your loss. Although it's been a while since you lost your beautiful canine pet, I lost mine on Feb 21, 2008, in a similar way. Mine was a 13-year old male toy poodle. He had experienced symptoms suggestive of thyroid problems. Five vets in Madison Alabama, who were involved in his case FAILED to diagnose that he was Addisonian. The internist at Birmingham Alabama did an ultrasound, diagnosed an intestinal obstruction and recommended exploratory surgery. The surgeon of Veterinary Surgery of Birmingham found NO OBSTRUCTION and biopsies of liver and small bowel were NORMAL. Six days after the surgery my pet died a horrific death. The surgeon released my pet to me although he had not recuperated enough to come home and be under my care. That was a major surgery and the surgeon told me nothing about it. He sounded like it was just a routine procedure, gave me no prognosis, complications, or signs to watch for and what to do. Under my care, on the second day, my pet had a seizure and rushed him to an emergency clinic at Huntsville, Alabama. There the vet did nothing but put him in an oxygen cage and asked me to pick him up the next morning. He also told me that if my pet died, he would call!! I picked my little bud up the next morning and brought him home. Before I had a chance to take him to a regular vet, he became comatose and rushed him again to another vet hospital. There the vet (not the referring vet) tried her best to revive him, but it was too late. . .all his organs had collapsed due to infection as the vet wrote in the report 'bruising midline from incision from surgery, SQ emphysema.'
From the day he was operated on Feb 14, 2008, to the day he died, Feb 21, 2008, he had not eaten anything. The surgeon told me that himself and asked me to make sure that he ate. He (surgeon) also recommended 'diet: normal.' I tried to force feed him a liquid diet because he refused to eat anything with no success.
The surgeon never returned my pet to the referring vet as their practice code suggests. The referring vets never called or followed up on my pet and it is their responsibility to follow up and provide post-op care on any pet after surgery.
This is just a synopsis of what happened to my pet in the hands of INCOMPETENT veterinarians. In my pet's case there WAS FAILURE TO DIAGNOSE, MISDIAGNOSIS, UNNECESSARY AND KILLING SURGERY, GROSS NEGLIGENCE, MALPRACTICE. I did file a complaint with the Alabama State Veterinary Board of Medical Examiners on March 18, 2008. I have not heard anything yet--just a phone call to let me know that they received my complaint. Doing extensive research, I found out that the state boards dismiss 90 percent of the complaints! That is the reason I want to sue the vets for malpractice, but I have not been able to find any animal lawyer in the state of Alabama.