Dang I'm sorry about y'alls experiences. We try to get everyone taken care of who comes through the door but we triage our emergencies and if they appear stable, work them into the schedule. Unfortunately sometimes there's a long wait for these "stable emergencies." Now I don't know where y'all went but that's what goes on for us. I'm not condoning or disagreeing with what those clinics did either.
I guess I'm just throwing out the other side of things from the clinic view, hoping to not start a chit storm. I realize y'alls dogs are important to you, as mine are to me, and more than likely would have had ruffled feathers (to put it mildly) if I had had similar experiences. Again, I'm sorry for your outcomes.....
