From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-06-01 17:23:20 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: A very humane way of helping our babies to the bridge.
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, shot barrell <shotgunkidz@...> wrote:
>
> Now that's a trusting vet how much if you don't mind me asking did the operation cost,
I have one ferret that is adrenal and I need to know what I am up against I never enter a
battle w/out knowing my ground lay
> Thanks
>
It is usually worthless to ask about medical costs generally. What works
better is to ask in your own area. The reason is because basic costs
differ so much between regions.
A number of things people don't usually realize can make costs vary
HUGELY from area to area and here is the one that surprises people:
Land costs (Land costs drive up many things because all of
the people providing services and all the employees have higher costs
so taxes tend to be higher, all maintenance is higher, and all
salaries are higher in places where the building and land cost
more.)
And here is an entirely different thing that can affect costs:
some vets have special arrangements for known shelters
which reduce their costs.
So, when people have discussed surgical costs in the past they have turned
out to vary markedly from area to area with some places costing twice
what others do for surgeries.
Unlike human's physicians whose costs are to a great deal affected by
insurance costs (with those who are willing to tackle the more risky
patients often having higher costs to go with higher skill sets - which
are reasons a number of them are with universities) vets have their own
sets of things that raise costs. They have to supply their own x-rays,
they often have debt from getting their doctorates and sometimes
(as with some exotics vets depending on what their doctoral programs
covered) doing post-doc training and paying for lots of seminars with
labs and conferences. Some have their own blood testing equipment.
They have to supply their own hospital and surgical needs. The list
goes on and on. Veterinary medicine is a very costly career choice,
but is one which often has marvelous emotional and intellectual
rewards though it sure won't get many rich except perhaps for some
of the race horse specialists (and that choice of going for life satisfaction
is true for a number of careers with doctorates so that often tells what a
person values in life).
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