Animal Health Care?
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I'm not a veterinarian, but I am a student in a related field.
Here goes my recap/explanation (I apologize in advance for the looooooong written out explanation):
In comparison to human medicine veterinary medicine is relatively new. The actual field wasn't officially recognized as important until mid 17th century in Europe (although there are depictions of people servicing animals that go back thousands of years), when livestock fell primarily ill to diseases and other associated problems.
This cornered people in the livestock industry, and the loss of business inquired officials to create the first veterinary school in Lyon, France in 1761.
In the past 100 years:
The standards, guidelines and requirements for the practice of veterinary research/medicine have changed drastically!
There is still a toooooooon of research that needs to be done.
Medicine always and constantly changes:
Partially due to new research, partially due to chemistry breakthroughs and engineering techniques.
Chemistry helps to create different medicines that will produce desired effects at lower costs. With given research and engineering techniques (creating better surgical equipment for example), newer technologies are readily available for people in the field!
A good example is some of the X-Ray machines that have changed in animal related fields in the past few years.
Previously (and still currently) many practices had to take and develop X-Ray film by hand. New technology has created a more advanced machine that does this automatically!
Science is ever-changing and evolving. Isn't it fascinating to watch?
im not vetnarian but i know animal health care has imroved due to all hte new age technology. we have more up to date machines with cleaere views so that we can give more accurate tests. we also now have care credit for those emegencies that we cant afford. care credit is liek a credit card for your pets healthcare.
Hello, I'm not a vet, but I own pets. In my opinion, in the last 5
years, the quality of health care for dogs, cats, horses, and
other animals has not improved. In fact, I believe it has got much worse, especially in Arkansas, Texas, Nevada, and Arizona.
This is happening because many new vets and ones that have been practicing for awhile are moving to fancy, corporate owned vet hospitals and clinics. These places
offer a lot of high quality services, but they are not very
affordable for most people.
For example, 3 of those places close to me charge $300.00
to spay a dog plus cost of office call and boarding for 2 nights. Ends up at around $400.00 total
Older country vets and vets in their own single practice don't charge ridulous rates for animal care. Every year we lose more and more of them because they retire.
Most of the fancy vet clinics and hospitals do not offer payment plans for new patients or people with bad credit
or to people on a limited income like Social Security.
The ones that do require about 50 percent down.
Your average working family, in my area can't afford that
especially with the price of gas being so high.
A lot of people are either surrendering their animals to a shelter (our local one is now turning away surrenders because of no space.), giving them away, or putting them to sleep.
My neighbor, a elderly lady on Social Security is trying to give away her 17 year old poodle mix because her vet retired and the local fancy hospital won't see her dog on a payment plan.
So far, she hasn't had any luck because the dog requires a lot of special care.
Most vets will say they became a vet to help animals, but then when push comes to shove they turn people with sick animals away because they don't want to offer a payment plan. To me that makes them hipocrites.
Human Hospitals are required by law not to turn away patients based on their ability to pay. There should be a law saying vets can't turn away animals based on their owners ability to pay.
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