You knew that already. I will print what else was said in addition to this. It's crazy to pretend that we can do this now. The main problems are the increasing demands and expectations from clients and state boards as well as the skyrocketing costs of space and staff. Only through excessive vaccination programs and excessive charging can the weight of all this hospital be supported.
Someone has to pay for it.
You take it out of your profits or you gouge your clients or you compromise what you truly believe is holistic by offering services and products you know to be either superfluous or toxic or both. There is no doubt that clients are getting more discriminant as well as more litigious these days. If there is any perceivable lack of integrity, if your staff or your facilities leave any room for doubt, you may be sued or attacked in other ways. People want you to be the Animal Medical Center AND James Herriot rolled into one but they do not realize that only idiotic fees and idiotic, unnessary services and products pay for such a luxury. Pet owners conveniently forget that third party coverage pays for human hospital extravagances.