Part of problem is corporate vet clinics that strive on ordering costly diagnostic exams rather than good old fashioned veterinary care. These large clinics are offering graduating veterinary students a $200.000 salary with a $100,000 signing bonus. Their job is to look at the pet for a few minutes and then order tests. Unfortunately, it’s mostly all about money now!
That doesn’t sound much different from human medicine, these days...
There is also pet insurance. So the docs know what their pay is per job they do. Why not gouge as much as they can?
Absolutely!
Look for old school independent vets.
The same thing that has happened to Big Med has happened to veterinary medicine.
Our local clinic got eaten, lost access to the vet we’d had for decades because there was reportedly a non-compete involved. Pet owners weren’t told any of this when the clinic was sold. And we found out about the vet the hard way.
As for care...
Let’s just say the Big Vet likes to run up bills as much as Big Med does.
Also found that out the hard way.
Not because we couldn’t afford the bill, but because we could afford the bill I allowed my beloved pet to be put through hell before I grew a brain and realized what was going on.
I will NEVER do that again.
Bingo. people hospitals are no different.