The Veterinary Industrial Complex
My Big Dog Nigel became seriously ill recently and in the end and after more than 15 days of not eating and many vet visits to two different vets, multiple medications and innumerable tests (all incon...
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Pawz4me wrote:
I'm sorry about Nigel.
But . . . your experience isn't universal, and thus your observations very likely aren't entirely accurate. The vet group I use employs way more than eleven people. And yet I've never felt rushed or pressured to have testing done until I had time to think it over.
Well to say that what I observe is not accurate may not be what you meant but I can assure you it is accurate. As someone who has owned and operated large and medium sized businesses and came from a family who did the same I can pretty much look at a business and tell you how much it's costing to run it. I also must point out that I didnt say or imply that it was universal. But it is a growing trend for sure already entrenched in many practices.
Secondly my main point about large vet practices and the amount of money they MUST bring in to pay the salaries, overhead, service debt et. al are real world and there is no denying that there HAS to be tremendous pressure to increase income at every opportunity to meet those costs, to say nothing of profit or a decent living for the Vet.
This is just plain business sense. And in my view this is raising vet costs out of all proportion to other costs and resulting in an overall skewing of what is truly important and harming pet care overall.
