How to Afford Veterinary Care without Mortgaging the Kids.
I’m 65 and am still in very active practice, but am disgruntled over the way my
profession is pricing routine (and often unjustified) procedures
beyond the reach of middle- and lower-class pet owners. Many
of these are not only unnecessary, but some even border on
being unethical in my opinion.
I am the fourth veterinarian in a family of veterinarians that stretches over a period of 100 years. My practice is going into its 41st year. In a nut shell I have grown so disillusioned with my profession’s hyping of unnecessary and sometimes even risky procedures for dogs and cats for the shameful purpose of simply increasing their clinic’s bottom line that I have written a book. Escalating costs of owning a pet is rapidly making ownership of companion animals a very costly enterprise and placing it out of the reach of more and more even middle class families. My book details in depth all the unnecessary medical procedures that pet owners are pressured into but can easily avoid with just a little inside knowledge. It also contains many common sense suggestions and ideas on pet care and ownership from a veterinarian who has personally owned and loved over a dozen dogs and cats in his lifetime.
