What We Do
What We Do
We Provide Internal Medicine Expertise
A board-certified veterinary internal medicine specialist – an internist – is a veterinarian who’s undergone additional training in how a pet’s internal body systems function and in diagnosing and treating the most serious diseases that affect these systems.
These diseases include, but are not limited to:
- Blood disorders
- Digestive/gastrointestinal tract disease
- Hematology – Immune-mediated disease
- Hormonal/endocrine disorders (including diabetes, thyroid, and Cushing’s disease)
- Infectious disease
- Kidney
- Liver and gallbladder disease
- Respiratory (lung and airway) disease
- Urinary and reproductive tract disease
We Provide Internal Medicine Expertise
A board-certified veterinary internal medicine specialist – an internist – is a veterinarian who’s undergone additional training in how a pet’s internal body systems function and in diagnosing and treating the most serious diseases that affect these systems.
These diseases include, but are not limited to:
- Blood disorders
- Digestive/gastrointestinal tract disease
- Hematology – Immune-mediated disease
- Hormonal/endocrine disorders (including diabetes, thyroid, and Cushing’s disease)
- Infectious disease
- Kidney
- Liver and gallbladder disease
- Respiratory (lung and airway) disease
- Urinary and reproductive tract disease
We Offer Clarity, Guidance, and Support
Managing your pet’s internal medicine health challenges can involve a complex array of information. Balancing confusing or conflicting diagnoses, persistent and changing symptoms and your pet’s quality of life can be overwhelming. The complex array of tests, medications, and treatment options as well as delays in getting appointments with specialists add to these challenges.
At Animal Internal Medicine Consultants, we bridge gaps in knowledge and help facilitate communication between you and your primary care veterinarian. By recommending diagnostic tests, suggesting treatment ideas, and creating connections to specialists and new therapies, we help resolve issues to foster a seamless, unified understanding of how to best address your pet’s health issues.
- Supportive telehealth (virtual) scheduled appointments, ongoing membership plans that offer communications (no appointment needed!), and in-person appointments.
- Expert review of medical records and careful listening about the unique aspects of your pet’s health issues
- Utilization of the Five Parts of Medical Decision Making, a methodology tailored to the unique needs of each pet parent/family and their pet to develop recommendations based upon the prognosis, finances, emotional, physical, and historical situations
- Our ability to research advanced treatments, technologies, therapies, clinical trials, nutrition, and other opportunities for patients and their people
- Clear communication and an ability to plainly explain medical conditions, circumstances, and diagnostics
- Compassion and empathy
- Trusted guidance on next steps and treatment options
We provide an opportunity for you to discuss your options, find new ones, and ask questions, so you understand all of your choices. Each circumstance is unique, so we provide personalized guidance to help you to choose what feels best for your pet.
The Five Aspects
of Medical Decision
Making
- Prognosis
When pets are ill and given a diagnosis, it comes with a prognosis and often a statistical survival rate. Sometimes, emergencies take away our choice. Pet owners want to maximize their pet’s quality of life. Getting an idea of what that might be is important. Discussing the expected course of a disease can help people decide how to best proceed.
2. Financial
Although the prognosis might be fair to good, the cost of caring for a pet can impact people’s choices. Finding the most economical way to proceed for pet owners with limited resources may make the difference between a joyful outcome and frustration. Honest discussions about the expected cost and capabilities of a pet owner can help determine how to move forward.
3. Emotional
Pets work their way into our hearts – usually within an hour of entering our lives. When they become ill, it is difficult to make decisions about their care because we’re so concerned about their survival. In many cases, the fear of losing them dominates our thoughts. Helping separate feelings from medical decision-making often requires the guidance of a professional. We also understand that love can mean letting go, which takes courage and support.
4. Physical
Caring for a pet with limited mobility or requiring administration of medications, fluids, and other treatments can be challenging. Some people will not realize the burden they are carrying when the slow progression of dependency occurs as their pets age and become ill. The decision-making equation should include the physical work a pet may require and whether a person can do it.
5. Historical
Many of the pet owners we have worked with share a story about a decision they made in the past that carries regret. Whether it was holding on too long to a pet at the end of life or not having the time to choose a path, we all learn from our experiences and think about how we might change things in the future. Considering those past experiences and making choices based on them is part of this process.
Learn More About Our Services
Explore our plans & pricing to understand how
Animal Internal Medicine Consultants can help your pet.
Learn More About Our Services
Explore our plans & pricing to understand how
Animal Internal Medicine Consultants can help your pet.
