Vet price check

[Petrus1983]

I now no longer have a pet - so regarding fees can’t comment too much. However I’ve previously dated a heart surgeon and also a vet. The heart surgeon was on atleast 4x the salary of the vet, when the surgeon went on conferences she was flown to stunning locations whereas the vet would be in a conference room in Milton Keynes, when the surgeons patient arrived they’d be nicely asleep vs dealing with the owners etc, the surgeon dealt with one type of patient - namely human vs the knowledge needed of multiple types of patient, the surgeon did work long hours but usually came home relatively stress free vs the vet who’d come home to deal with more paperwork as obviously she wasn’t under the NHS and had to deal with it herself. The list goes on and on - but next time you see the vet remember they worked bloody hard to get there and definitely have limited their salary ability to work with pets rather than humans.

[rigga]

I think the main issue is not the vets themselves , who obviously have to go through lots of training , and care a lot about their patients, it's the conglomerates who take over the practices , and want to screw every penny out of it.

[Petrus1983]

rigga said:

I think the main issue is not the vets themselves , who obviously have to go through lots of training , and care a lot about their patients, it's the conglomerates who take over the practices , and want to screw every penny out of it.

Ah yeah - that’s cool and I understand that aspect. I’ve remained friends with the vet and I know she was very disappointed when the older owners sold out.