Perth vet's registration cancelled after multiple complaints and two dead dogs
Dr Adrian Burstein was found to have engaged in 22 counts of professional misconduct by the State Administrative Tribunal while working as a vet at his Clarkson practice, Ocean Keys Veterinary Hospital. A further 13 complaints against him were dismissed.
The SAT findings, released on Monday, related to the care and treatment of two dogs; Malo and Meggs.
The documents stated Malo, a five-year-old Dogue de Bordeaux, was taken to the clinic in January 2019.
He was kept overnight, with Burstein later telling the tribunal he monitored the dog throughout the night, even charging Malo's owners an overnight monitoring fee, but the dog died of a ruptured spleen before he could be operated on the next morning.
In a text message to the dog's owners the evening he died, Burstein stated that Malo was 'alone for very very few periods last night'.
However, the tribunal found that was a lie and Burstein had spent much of the evening at home, and therefore did not intensively monitor the dog.
Throughout the dog's admittance, Burstein communicated with his owners via text message, telling them the dog was doing well, and claimed to have examined him about 6am the following morning, which the tribunal also found was a lie.
At that time, he sent the couple a photo of the dog's gums with the caption, 'stable for now' and 'colour good', implying that he had just checked the dog that morning.
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