MRI - O'Gormans or Liverpool??

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Just wondered if anyone has had any experience of MRI at either place? I'm pretty much right between the 2 so it doesn't really matter to me which one I go to... Obviously Liverpool have got a very good reputation but it looks like O'Gormans have done a lot more MRI's so might have more experience...?
 
I took my mare to O'Gormans... Never again, their customer service was awful. I couldn't wait to pick her up. I'm sure they did a fab job, as vets.
 
When I was a groom on a large yard we used O' Gormans and I'm not aware of any major problems. They do tend to call a spade a spade but I have no issue with that.

On more than one occasion I have seen Mike O' Gorman diagnose a horse without x-rays etc (unusual problems, eg. cyst on stifle) and have used x-rays to confirm and he has been spot on. I think he has forgotton more than I'll ever know!

I have no experience of Liverpool so can't comment.
 
Are you near O'Gormans? If so, why Liverpool? There are other exce3llent options that are probably a lot closer and just as good.
 
glenruby said:
Are you near O'Gormans? If so, why Liverpool? There are other exce3llent options that are probably a lot closer and just as good.
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Like I said, I'm half way between the two, in Worcestershire. Not aware of anywhere else I can take him for an MRI that's closer to me...??
 
My girl went to Leahurst and I was very pleased with the care they gave her. I was there when they did lamesness assessment so could ask questions of specialist and he rang me following day to talk through findings on MRI and management program and he also rang my farrier. All in all very pleased with them. Don't know O'Gorman's so can't comment
 
Unforuntately, I don't rate O'Gorman's much. My mare suffered an injury in 2008 and went lame. They sent a locum vet out - which may be fine for a vaccination or something, but for lameness, I thought they'd send an established vet out. This vet was talking a lot of **** to be honest, and the rather gullible YO (couldn't be there at the time as was at work) believed her. Just to be precise, the vet actually told the YO that all German horses that touch British soil are crap... some sort of conspiracy by the Germans (pls. somebody tell her to stop reading the Daily Mail!). Then, she decided after viewing x-rays that proved fine that my mare was making up her injury!!!

Fast forward a few months later, another vet from O'Gorman's decided she had bone spavin, but not too bad, and just needed to be worked. It wasn't until we moved away that a vet outside of O'Gorman's decided that she had something else as her x-rays weren't too bad at all. He did proper checks, but inevitably, my horse went back to O'Gorman's a year later (as she was STILL lame!!!) for arthroscopy. Turns out, she tore her tendons at an odd place, and basically, just said box rest and paddock. THIS WAS A WHOLE YEAR AFTER THE INJURY. Anyway, did that for a good part of a year, and vet came back to say paddock rest for another year.

By now, my horse has had 3 years of hardly any work, and her leg is still kinda "short" (she can't extend it properly). I sent vet report off to vets in the U.S. and other vets here in the U.K., and they all said, they would have involved physio and started working the horse again much earlier despite her hind leg being stiff - because it will look stiff unless you actually do some work, build up the muscles, etc. If I followed the vets from O'Gorman's this would continue forever...

We are starting to work her now. She improved with work, though the cold weather seems to be reversing the work a little. I am just shocked at the inconsistency I have experienced with those vets...
 
Unfortuenately I've had to use O'Gormans a lot over the last couple of years. But they've always done a really good job for me and my horses and I would highly recommend them.
 
Most vets are fine with minor things, but if there are complications, you'd think they would (a) use their most experienced vet rather than send locum vets or send different people around each time and (b) maybe say sorry, when one of their vets got it ridiculously wrong. None of that happened.

Because of that experience, I'm really sceptic of locum vets now.

I do wish we had the high tech vets/proper rehab clinics (like Kesmarc) here that they have in the U.S.
 
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