North Portland Veterinary Hospital: Fletcher Chris DVM

Dr. Bohrer was great. She showed great kindness for Murphy. She has a very pleasant demeanor toward pets and spent enough time to explain all the next steps Murphy needs. Would recommend.

The vet I've had (n others I know) for over 20 yrs recently retired. She's the best! Finding it difficult to find a vet there I like. Way too costly there! And push treatments. Might look to go for vet elsewhere n closer to my home.

I took my cats to "N. Portland Animal Clinic" for years. then it moved to Lombard and became a hospital. Soon they sold out and became an HMO. Their prices are outrageous, and, yes, they are only interested in how much you can pay. I would never take another animal there again. When veterinary clinics/hospitals are charging as much as human clinics/hospitals, it is time to reevaluate our pathetic, greedy, animal care practitioners. I know all the new equipment etc, is expensive, but you would think they would be able to give some people a break or help them somehow. What happened to the vets that work for the love of animals?

It's okay. They do look to charge for everything they can which is annoying. Also I took my dog in in late September, they said he was fine, then I noticed he looked a bit thin about a month later. By Thanksgiving I was asking people if they thought he looked different, they said he looked ok. I thought maybe I need to take him in. Soon after we went into another vet because VCA hadn't anything available and the other vet said he was very sick and we had to go to the ER. He apparently had liver failure! VCA totally missed this! Not so happy about that..

I don’t recommend this practice. Their main criteria seems to be “ how much do you want to pay?” I took my cat for an evaluation of a puncture wound sustained in a fight. I had sent a picture of the wound to my regular vet but they couldn’t see her for a few days and recommended an urgent care clinic, as puncture wounds in a cat can often become infected, leading to abscess or worse. Cat was eating, drinking, eliminating and behaving normally. N Portland Vet offered a “ complete work- up” for $1200 to “be sure the puncture wound hadn’t punctured the lungs”. Or a course of antibiotics for about $200. Guess what? If you are a qualified vet you should be able to evaluate if the lungs have sustained puncture wound from the signs and symptoms. I opted for antibiotics and had to talk them out of giving a steroid because 1. There was no swelling 2. Cat didn’t seem to be in pain 3. Steroids are very hard on older pets and can have nasty side effects 4. No data that shows better outcomes for giving steroids in the absence of inflammation or swelling. I also found out they didn’t even bother to take the cat’s temp! This would have been a very low tech way to find out if the cat had an infection. Maybe they couldn’t charge for it ?? The other recommendation from the vet was to “put a cone on the cat “ ( so she couldn’t lick the wound) and “keep her indoors until it heals”. My cat is an indoor outdoor kitty, so I knew this would just stress her out. I let her lick the wound and go in and out as usual- while carefully monitoring for infection or complications. Update: My sweet cat healed right up. So, all in all- I won’t be switching from my excellent and reasonably priced vet at Vista Pet Hospital, to this pricey “boutique “ vet. I will say that their COVID protocols were on point- masked staff come out to your car to pick up or return your pet.