Hospitalization
It
is my personal feeling as a physician that all patients be they people or
animals would be better off if they could be treated at home. However, there are
times when a being must be hospitalized. Sometimes in the case of animals the
owners just cannot give the medications to an uncooperative patient. Or if an
animal is vomiting then medications cannot be given via the mouth and hence the
pet 
would
need to be hospitalized.
Intensive
hospitalization should be done in a facility that has a full staff working
through the night. But there are lesser forms of hospitalization that can be
done by the Doctor and perhaps one staff person visiting the in patient after
hours.
In
our ongoing efforts to communicate with our clients, we will often call the pet
owner with progress reports, even in the wee hours if the pet owner desires such
a report.