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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Yes I hope Doc you don't personally take offense. Certainly not intended to offend.
IMHO it's NOT the majority of 'vets', it's the new 'trend' of corp owned veterinarian clinics that are cropping up all over that stock them chuck full of 1st year vets, vet techs treating pets and pet owners becoming nothing more than an assembly line of consumers.
THE HARDEST thing I had to do when I choose to go Full Time RV'ing was leaving my vet behind. IMHO 'THE' BEST in the whole wide world vet! :C
Yes he started out real small in a small town and over the years his business grew. I had friends from 150 miles away bring their pets out to his clinic to be diagnosed and treated. He was good and more importantly he really 'cared'.
No matter how big his clinic grew, the new building he had built, or how much more new equipment he purchased he NEVER lost the real reason he wanted to become a vet and his deep ingrained purpose of really wanting to help all animals.
Just like shopping malls and Wally world drove out the mom and pop stores IMHO, I think these new 'corporate owned' 'assembly line type' vet clinics just might be driving out the old time small personally owned vets offices. The local vet just can't compete with the corporation owned type vet clinics that have ample finances and that have a lower over head.
The vet I did find locally here that I liked just got bought out by a corporation last month. :(
75% of the good vets working there left the following day refusing to go that route.
AND they immediately shut down their emergency service also.
Leaving clients to have to go to one of those 24 hr ER Vet Clinics way across town in an emergency where it costs $800.00 to just walk in the door.
Just try and find one of these corporate owned assembly line vet clinics that offers emergency service. Sadly you won't.
Now I'm looking for a new clinic too after having two of the new vets there working for the corporation, that suggested euthanasia for 2 different dogs I own simply because they were not capable of diagnosing the problem. Even after I told them what was wrong with each one. :R
IMHO it's NOT the majority of 'vets', it's the new 'trend' of corp owned veterinarian clinics that are cropping up all over that stock them chuck full of 1st year vets, vet techs treating pets and pet owners becoming nothing more than an assembly line of consumers.
THE HARDEST thing I had to do when I choose to go Full Time RV'ing was leaving my vet behind. IMHO 'THE' BEST in the whole wide world vet! :C
Yes he started out real small in a small town and over the years his business grew. I had friends from 150 miles away bring their pets out to his clinic to be diagnosed and treated. He was good and more importantly he really 'cared'.
No matter how big his clinic grew, the new building he had built, or how much more new equipment he purchased he NEVER lost the real reason he wanted to become a vet and his deep ingrained purpose of really wanting to help all animals.
Just like shopping malls and Wally world drove out the mom and pop stores IMHO, I think these new 'corporate owned' 'assembly line type' vet clinics just might be driving out the old time small personally owned vets offices. The local vet just can't compete with the corporation owned type vet clinics that have ample finances and that have a lower over head.
The vet I did find locally here that I liked just got bought out by a corporation last month. :(
75% of the good vets working there left the following day refusing to go that route.
AND they immediately shut down their emergency service also.
Leaving clients to have to go to one of those 24 hr ER Vet Clinics way across town in an emergency where it costs $800.00 to just walk in the door.
Just try and find one of these corporate owned assembly line vet clinics that offers emergency service. Sadly you won't.
Now I'm looking for a new clinic too after having two of the new vets there working for the corporation, that suggested euthanasia for 2 different dogs I own simply because they were not capable of diagnosing the problem. Even after I told them what was wrong with each one. :R
