Originally Posted by
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You have just said what I have been saying all along: these machines, equipment, materials cost alot of money which is costed into the running of the surgery. The cost of treatment when your dog ( who you have chosen to have of your own free will and have taken responsibility for) is rushed into the surgery with a shattered leg is partially paid for by the evryday procedures such as reproductive surgeries ( knock your socks off) and vaccines, which maintain the surgery. If you want an analogy (not a simily): Tesco does not make money by selling truffle oil. It makes money by selling bread and butter, but once in a while someone just has to have truffle oil, which is why they stock it.
Refering back: you seem to be under the impression that the local veterinary practice has a throat hold on the local animals health care needs. You are not forced to use them, you know? Or are you under the impression that someone has to open another local practice to give you a choice? If so, where is the business model that shows that this county can support two practices? And if it is such a great business idea (as apparently you are under the impression that vet practices are a license to print money), why have you not forged ahead with opening a practice. If you do not have the degree, you could manage the practice. Or go to vet school. How difficult can it be?
I think that everyone who knows a vet, even in passing, knows that they tend to put alot of dedication into their work and that yes, they do alot of unremunerated work. If that is not your experience then I can only draw one of two possible conclusions: you are either mixing with the wrong type of people/vet or you do not know vets. If the former, I can only suggest you change your circle of aquaintances. If the latter, then again you factualize entities unknown to you.