Law is the new Medicine

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>If you’ve a passion for animals and brains and drive, go to Vet school. My dog’s last two surgeries (one for swallowing something disgusting and unmentionable that caused an obstruction) and surgery, today (for the extraction of 2 teeth, a tooth cleaning, and the excision of 3 (benign) cysts/tumors), were 4,200 and 2,200, today, not including medicine and post-op. </p>

<p>Contrast that with 600 dollars for sight-restoring surgery (cataract) or 300 dollars for a hysterectomy and all follow-up/post-surgical care is included, and, yet, overhead goes on.</p>

<p>It’s not that my vet is overpaid, it’s that physicians are grossly underpaid by the time you factor in not only practice overhead but also factor in the cost of educating a doctor.</p>

<p>We spend hours on the phone, too, trying to arrange sub-specialty consults or argue with insurance companies to approve scans for our patients and, unlike attorneys, are not allowed to charge for our time.</p>

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<p>^^SW</p>

<p>Most people do not have that kind of cash to spend on pet surgeries, so they put them down. The big bucks in Vet is animal husbandry. The vast majority of retail Vets don’t do nearly as well.</p>

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<p>You would think not, but, yet, when it comes to one’s pets, people are much more willing to pay. I know people who elect to pay for their pet’s well-being over their own health insurance. The retail vets in our area are doing phenomenally and are recession-proof. It is still a 3-4 month wait to get a non-emergency appt.</p>