The ironic thing is that the woman had never meant to see the surgeon who ultimately had the solution. She had gone to the clinic to see someone else, but the doctor she had intended to visit was out. I 'm thinking how similar all this is to a situation I'm currently facing with my dog Spot. He has a ruptured eardrum with an accompanying inner ear infection in his right ear. Four different vets have proposed everything from doing absolutely nothing to the total surgical removal of his entire ear canal.
Nobody agrees on anything.
Each vet has their own special combination of antibiotics and anti-inflammatories to keep the infection in control. We tried them all. Nothing was working very well until we switched from Batril, the antibiotic all the vets said was most effective, to Primor, a similar drug that was much easier for the friends who were taking care of Spot while Janet and I were on vacation to administer. The Primor was only meant to be a two week substitute drug. Surprisingly though, this was the drug that worked.