Sounds like my old vet. I hardly ever paid for medication. He almost always sent me home w/o having to pay for the meds, only the procedures. He hardly ever even charged me for the office visit! He called it "LeBeau economics", LeBeau being his surname. He took early retirement b/c he had serious back issues and many surgeries. He even came out of retirement for a couple of years b/c he missed his work so much but he found that he could no longer stand on his feet for long periods of time so he retired again. What compassion this man had! He hand wrote a two page letter when my dog Charmin died. My current vet, Dr. Lee, is fairly expensive, I must say but he didn't charge me a penny for having Boo PTS and he carried Boo himself and walked me to my car and placed him on the seat next to me, gave me a hug and told me to please drive carefully b/c I was so upset. Yep, we've got a couple of good ones, Ellie.