Medical services are getting costlier and less accessible, and there are too few practitioners to meet the rising needs of animal lovers. But there are solutions we can try. First of all: Be kind and patient with your vets
Psychologists call them “flashbulb memories” – events we remember so vividly that we can visualize every last detail, as if we were holding a photograph of that moment in our hands. I have been a veterinarian for 34 years. During that time I’ve treated dogs, cats, rabbits, snakes, hamsters, you name it – but this is one memory that really stands out when I think back on my career.noon on Friday, March 20, 2020.
they were noticing potential issues they had not noticed before. In the early part of the pandemic, it seemed like people only left their houses to do two things: buy toilet paper and go to the vet. This is when I really knew that something fundamental had changed in veterinary medicine. My own journey into veterinary medicine was unusual. Unlike the great majority of my colleagues, including my wife, I only decided to become a veterinarian when I was already in university.I went through the alphabetically organized course listings, rejecting one program after another until at the very end, I landed on V for veterinary medicine. This looked intriguing.
More pets needing more care means that more veterinarians are required. The number of newly graduated veterinarians has not kept pace with this demand. In 2019, the five Canadian veterinary colleges graduated about 350 students. This In my own practice, we recently had to take the unprecedented step of no longer accepting new patients, at least for the time being. Many procedures that we used to be able to schedule for your pet within days or a week are now booking out months ahead. It sounds like the human health care system, doesn’t it? There are many aspects of human medicine that veterinarians are happy to emulate, but wait lists and an inability to find a “family doctor” are not among them.
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