Atlantic Coast Veterinary Specialists 3250 Veterans Memorial Highway, Bohemia, NY 11716

"Our beloved Yorkie became very sick suddenly. We visited two other emergency vets who both failed to diagnose her correctly. Our vet recommended Atlantic Coast as we needed a cardiologist. The gentleman who took our dog from the waiting room was so gentle and kind to her. Vickie was absolutely amazing and so good to our dog. Dr. Shabbing correctly diagnosed her and although it wasn't the outcome we hoped for, we now had the information to make the choice to end her suffering."

"All about the money. I had to bring my elderly cat in for euthanasia on a Sunday. No one else could take her. The receptionist was very sweet. The technician was nice. He took her in the back and placed an IV catheter. The doctor came in with no personality and put my sweet girl to rest. I don’t have a problem with this. The problem I have is that the bill was over $700 for a tiny cat. Private cremation. The private cremation for my 85 pond dog at my regular vet was a little over $400. I understand it’s an emergency vet and you’re going to pay more but this is absurd and quite frankly, shameful. They’re praying on the fact that people are desperate and don’t have anywhere else to go. $300 difference between a big dog and a little cat. Ridiculous."

"Dr Wright helped my rescue girl in her last weeks with us. She fought endlessly even after finding out that there was nothing she could do. She listened to us cry and loved on our girl and gave her so many kisses. Everyone was so respectful and understanding of our girl. No one judged her or feared her for not being dog friendly. They all did what they could. In the end we just didn’t find out early enough what was going on. I will forever be grateful for everything that was done here. Dr Wright gave our dog the right medicine to allow us to spend an amazing 5 days at home with her. Also all veterinary medicine was expensive and especially emergency. I urge you all to do your own research and form your own opinions. Get care credit, get pet insurance and do not blame these people for you not having the right resources available. Every test they gave to our dog fell right down the middle in terms of high low pricing available on google. Thank you for giving my girl comfort. Walla will be missed"

"Money is their primary motive of operation. They take advantage of you when they know you have nowhere else to bring your critically ill pet in the middle of the night. Shame on them. They basically finished off my little boy when we brought him in after 4am after he had been demonstrating a breathing/coughing issue coming out of the blue a 1/2 hour earlier the morning of Sat, July 29. Initially Dr explains Papa, our dog, is experiencing congenital heart failure but paints an optimistic picture by explaining once stabilized and evaluated by a cardiologist, Papa could be sent home with medication. Then put into a waiting room where a receptionist, who might as well have been dressed as the grim reaper starts laying out monetary options of treatment, all in financial ballparks that sadly and astonishingly fall way beyond my means. Just preposterous estimates in today’s world. It’s Bohemia, not Beverly Hills. All/any attempts of asking for a payment plan or negotiating payments are rejected. I’m gainfully employed and would have signed a binding contract if that’s what it took to treat my beloved boy. Papa is merely allowed to receive just another hour’s worth of oxygen, all without our observation, and then returned to us in worse shape than we brought him in. He was clearly oxygen deprived, uncomfortable and likely anxiety provoked, coughing more pronounced than we had arrived. That’s what oxygen administration does? We brought him home, tried to calm him without success and brought him to our vet when they opened who wouldn’t see him bc they work BY APPOINTMENT. Even after we pointed out his tongue had begun turning blue. SHAME ON THEM TOO. Left with no reasonable nor logical choices but to bring him back to the Bohemia SPECIALISTS, spoke to another doc who seemed to possess some degree of empathy but cutting to the chase we had to make the unbearable decision, bc we didn’t have between 5-10k to invest in treatment we had to put our wonderful boy down. To my own dying day I will never truly know if July 29th was Papa’s day to die or, if compassion had overruled greed, could that beautiful boy have had more days left in him had he been administered proper medical treatment w/o the distraction of immediate financial profit. Again, I’m employed over 28 years in local government. Not that they even asked my employment history. Shame/Damn on these “specialists”. All of us here who’ve had bad experiences, and there seems to be no shortage, should band together and consider some type of legal action. No it won’t bring our babies back but perhaps it’ll spare future families from certain anguish. Had I read these reviews at the time my little guy was in duress I’d have never brought him to this morgue. They are ghouls!"