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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is a vet.  He says patients' owners frequently try to wheedle him into doing services for reduced fees (or free).  He has owners who throw mini tantrums when they are told the price of a treatment, and sometimes demand to know whether he really cares about animals at all or is only in it "for the money."

He is so stressed and works so hard.  The clinic is expensive to run and while he would love to give services for reduced fees, he can't.  Besides, he worked hard to complete rigorous medical training and is a professional offering a real specialized service: most people would never dream of trying to talk a medical specialist for humans down to lower fees, or question their intentions in offering a treatment.

Why are doctors for humans somehow considered more ethical and trustworthy than vets?  You don't become a vet for the money, because there just isn't that kind of money in it.  If someone capable of completing medical training wishes to go for $$$, he/she is more likely to treat humans because that is where you make the kind of high income people seem to think vets achieve.

Anyway, my kid is only in his first year of work and I am shocked at how much role the owners' behavior has on his job satisfaction, and also at how rude and insulting people can be to him when he truly just wants to help the animals.  Please be nice to your vet, people.  There are no ulterior motives and they aren't making fortunes.[/quote]
I think the behavior stems from the fact that people know the vet and the clinic do almost everything (testing, pharmacy, surgery etc) in house and it isn't unusual for vets to be a clinic owner where as human doctors tend to not own their own clinics (most are corporate) and there are a lot of separate moving parts (the hospital or clinic gets their fee, the pharmacy gets their fee, the dr. gets their fee) that makes up your bill plus most people have insurance. [/quote]

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