Hey so my year is off to a fun start if you have read the title. A short backstory, my horse had some funky abscess things going on with his left hind since September that developed into a bump near his coronet band and long story short, my vet showed pics and details to a surgeon and the opinion of the surgeon was that we should proceed with a debridement for assumed quittor. I posted a thread on the horse care category if you want more specific details. Anyway, this my first plunge into anything of this sort and I would really really appreciate info on what the best hospitals/vet clinics/surgeons are in my area are. I am located in Newbury, MA. I am aware of Tufts, Myhre Equine Clinic, and New England Equine. I have heard mixed things about Myhre from people I know having gone there but online obviously you hear mixes of everything. If you don’t want to post in public, feel free to just PM me please, I really want to hear the good bad and ugly. The horse community gate keeps horror stories until you have one to share yourself it seems and I really am trying to avoid that.
Also, I plan on visiting the facility and talking with the surgeon in person and seeing the facility completely before I decided where to take my boy. My standard vet clinic does seem to work with one hospital in particular, but I want to explore all the options and make the decisions that feel right to me not just the ones I am “supposed” to make.
Any specific etiquette that is expected or anything I should make sure to ask beforehand as this is my first experience with this I would appreciate some guidance and things you wished you knew going into it. My horse is uninsured FWIW