Stuart Spencer

Stuart Spencer
Category: Pets
Neighborhood: Queen Anne
8/12/2010 First to Review
Jocular he is, competent he is not.

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Over two years ago we brought our ailing 19-year-old cat here. The professional ineptitude and desultory attitude of Dr. Stuart Spencer was nothing short of remarkable.

(1) He took a five-second look--I am unable to use the word "analysis"--of my cat's nose and then laconically--I detected a yawn of complacency mixed with boredom--and solemnly declared that "he [not Dr. Spencer] has a precancerous lesion.*"

Without missing a beat, he turned what had been a rather less than enlightening medical examination to the subject of surgery [removal of the supposed lesion] and how it, in terms of logistics and cost, would proceed.

(2) I will not go into the ethical implications of a veterinarian refusing to see the dying cat of a client. [Whatever reservations we had had about his clinic had, all along, been kept to ourselves].

Nor recount the particulars of his soft-shoe sell of a highly improbable "dental package" for a 19-year-old cat in renal failure.

Instead, I will simply state here that on our very first visit to the Queen Anne Clinic the actual physical examination of our cat lasted a total of 90 seconds and that the rest of the time Dr. Spencer droned on about options for treatment and offered dubious explanations--more his own personal ("armchair philosophy") opinions--that could have been just as easily and certainly more profitably been kept strictly to himself.

* dermatitis, in fact

Please read my original review:

http://www.yelp.com/bi...

I am still very troubled at the treatment we received here. More to the point, I would never take my pet to see Stuart Spencer.

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Queen Anne needs a decent veterinary clinic. Unfortunately, this Dr. Spencer lacks the prerequisites, professional and ethical, to be employed in such an establishment.