Vet's fees

[Levo-Lon]

As I've said before..my Daughter in law is a vet..6 years at Liverpool uni.
She passed with top grades. And also got a microbiology degree while studying to keep her very clever brain occupied..
She is doing 2 days a week as there having kids..
I think she earns around 50k when working 8 until 6 when on 5 day plus alternate Saturday's .
She has the usual loan for life like most post grads.

She often says I wish I'd been a Dr as that would be easy as the patient tells you where it hurts as a rule and you get better pay and conditions.. Bigger nhs pentions and more Holliday ..
Maybe if people treated pets as pets and not Children they would be a lot cheaper as the animal would be put to sleep instead of opting for all the amazing things they now treat.
So you have to consider all these things when paying your bill

 

[Drago]

They put sick children to sleep? Blimey, its worse than the old Soviet NHS.

 

[arch684]

Cost me another £70 today and probably the same next week

 

[Levo-Lon]

They put sick children to sleep? Blimey, its worse than the old Soviet NHS.

We shouldn't joke..it would save the NHS if we did put old knackered humans to sleep..

 

[arch684]

But surely you knew all about the costs of a dog before you got it?

It's not my dog it belongs to my daughter'she is away working

 

[arch684]

If your struggling with paying then get her to send you the money over via bank transfer or paypal.

I'm not struggling at all.just think £70 is a bit much for pain killers a a course of antbiotics

 

[Andy_R]

As I've said before..my Daughter in law is a vet..6 years at Liverpool uni.
She passed with top grades. And also got a microbiology degree while studying to keep her very clever brain occupied..
She is doing 2 days a week as there having kids..
I think she earns around 50k when working 8 until 6 when on 5 day plus alternate Saturday's .
She has the usual loan for life like most post grads.

She often says I wish I'd been a Dr as that would be easy as the patient tells you where it hurts as a rule and you get better pay and conditions.. Bigger nhs pentions and more Holliday ..
Maybe if people treated pets as pets and not Children they would be a lot cheaper as the animal would be put to sleep instead of opting for all the amazing things they now treat.
So you have to consider all these things when paying your bill

IIRCC, she'll have a loan for life of around £100,000 from leaving Uni. Paying that off, paying a mortgage on the home she lives in, paying rent/mortgage/partners subs in the practise, etc mounts up to a huge bill. Vets are in it not to pay the bills, but for the love of the job. It's a vocation.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

IIRCC, she'll have a loan for life of around £100,000 from leaving Uni. Paying that off, paying a mortgage on the home she lives in, paying rent/mortgage/partners subs in the practise, etc mounts up to a huge bill. Vets are in it not to pay the bills, but for the love of the job. It's a vocation.

One would have thought her "very clever brain" should have alerted her to that not being very clever.

 

[Andy_R]

Some people do "jobs" because they love them. It's not an indication of being "clever". I have a low paid job working with children and vulnerable adults which gives me so much satisfaction that I actually look forward to Monday morning, because I can make a big difference to people's lives. This, I think, is very clever. as it means that the thing I do for most of my waking hours is something I enjoy. Ask anyone who has a vocation instead of a "job"

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 4768548, member: 9609"]No, a 15 year old labrador who may have over excited himself with a bitch on heat, we thought he was dying, wife phoned me up whilst I was out on bike and told me to get home ASAP, as dog had colapsed, by the time I got back he was back on his feet but going on wierd panting and crying, didn't eat his dimnner, same again sunday morning so we got vet out, he couldn't find anything obviously wrong but done a whole load of bloods. three days later dog is back to normal (as normal as 15 yo dog is) full appertite, blood tests show nothing seriously odd. We now know of someone with a bitch on heat who has been walking the path the back of where we live, vet agrees this is probably the explanation.


I'm guessing £200 - must be mental spending this much on a dog a good few years past his sell by date. - the daft thing can't even get to his feet of a lino floor - but can still walk a mile or so when he gets going



FOC - sounds like a good excuse [/QUOTE]
I'm glad that he's OK. We spent a lot of money on our dog after he had a prolapsed disc, the curse of long dogs with shortish legs. We had insurance for all of his twelve years, and I think the vets bills were about equal to the premiums we paid in his lifetime. A country friend advised us to MTFU and "get out the pistol" when his back went. I think Bertie would have been far better off if we had taken that advice, but we were sentimental townies.

 

[slowmotion]

Did you have a pistol?

No. I think that terrier men had access to Greeners. A brass tube into which you can put a 0.38 round. Place it on the forehead of a horse and tap the firing pin. My father had one but I never saw it do the needful.

Edit: they take a 0.310, not a 0.38.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Some people do "jobs" because they love them. It's not an indication of being "clever". I have a low paid job working with children and vulnerable adults which gives me so much satisfaction that I actually look forward to Monday morning, because I can make a big difference to people's lives. This, I think, is very clever. as it means that the thing I do for most of my waking hours is something I enjoy. Ask anyone who has a vocation instead of a "job"

I have a job which helps people and makes a difference, I think I should be properly paid for it. Any bollocks about "it's a vocation" is capitalist bullshit.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I have a job which helps people and makes a difference, I think I should be properly paid for it. Any bollocks about "it's a vocation" is capitalist bullshit.

I get the feeling your never happy @Marmion whatever job you do.
Maybe your in the wrong mind

 

[Sandra6]

What would I charge for leaving my family on Easter Sunday?
Well, like many many other people on minimum wage who don't have a choice about working, not a lot!
I don't agree with charging more to do your job just because the timing's a little inconvenient.

 

[Drago]

Problem is, the highly paid professions can afford not to work at all on Bank Holidays, so if you want them to do it you need the inducement or they won't bother, and poor old Fido gets to suffer until Tuesday.