Unpopular but true opinion.
They average vet puts more effort into quickly diagnosing and treating real problems in dogs then the average doctor puts into doing the same for humans.
Also, they get it right more often too. Sorry, not sorry.
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Accurate
If they suck at their jobs they go out of business, doctors always get that sweet Medicare/Medicaid no matter what
He didn't pose this as a question but you just gave him the answer...
Imagine relying on medicaid/medicare to keep your practice solvent š¤£š
Seriously thoughā¦system is fkd. Admin glut, mas govt involvement, rising cost of premiums, decreasing reimbursements, incentives placed on volume vs. quality of care.
At this point the system seems to have trended towards being intentionally designed to take advantage of the good docsā sense of duty and compassion for their patients (ie counts on many of us doing uncompensated work because we understand that itās in our patientsā best interest).
Problem is not everyone is good/gaf and when you incentivize doing the bare minimum (ie enough to avoid a lawsuit and not get fired) this is a recipe for shit care.
Itās no wonder why almost all my colleagues who got into medicine for the right reasons have plans to make an early escape.
Dogs donāt lie though so thereās that.
That's 100% accurate. I'm pretty sure most vets care more too. Truth hurts
True this!!!š¤Æš
ā¦Iām a physician and have a close friend that is a vet. He and his partner actually lay hands on their patients work thru common probabilities of disease to determine cost effective treatment plans with uncanny accuracy and minimal extraneous testing (X-ray imaging and labā¦ although even their utilization of these supplements have slowly increased). They arenāt always right and sometimes have to alter the course of treatment but their results are shockingly good with minimal complications related to treatments (iatragenic complications).
Modern Medicine has been centralized and co-opted by governments and corporations. This in turn has driven algorithmic medicine, a one size fits all approach, which often disregards cost effectiveness, minimizes personal contact between patients and physicians, has resulted in the skyrocketing use of imaging and laboratory (both very lucrative), and a bias towards the use of newer more expensive treatments over traditional treatments (which are typically cheaper and time tested). Iatragenic injuries have increased dramatically which is likely a consequence of the push toward rapid development of patents for these new and more costly treatments.
In addition the changes have driven increasing specialization of medicine which has created the effect of a medical mill where seeking problems unrelated to a patientās complaint are incentivized. Patients are then plugged into this medical mill and referred to other (sometimes multiple) specialists who have their own algorithm for treatment and follow up. Elderly patients (over 70 yo) are not uncommonly seeing 4-5 different physicians a month. Many are on multiple medications prescribed from multiple different physicians.
All medications have safety and metabolic profiles but these will vary from patient to patient. In addition there is no model that can fully predict the effect of multiple medications on the metabolism and safety of each otherā¦ much less accounting for genetic variation in different patients and their different states of health. Think of the difficulty of predicting a 3 body model on steroids and then increased logarithmically and u get the picture.
IMHO modern medicine has abandoned the Hippocratic Oath (first do no harm) in favor of profits and who knows what elseā¦but this is jus one idgitās opinionš¤·š½āāļø
Going to identify as a labordoodle next time I need medical treatment.