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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1793276" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>I think the world is changing rapidly and I can see down the track that most large animal Vets will be working for big pastoral companies as their resident Vet or Vets managing their herd health. Those that do farm visits to smaller farms will work for large corporate practices and when that does happen be prepared to pay for absolutely every service, every bit of advice. I have been out of the game now for over 15 years but when I left corporate Vet practices were already swallowing up the small city practices. I was told that pressure was put on the employed clinicians to meet targets for every consultation, recheck etc. They didn't care how you got there, selling prescription dog food or excessive pathology tests as long as you hit their target per consultation which even then was over $200.</p><p>This along with the new prescription requirements will add a lot of costs and the corporate Vets won't be generous with giving out prescriptions either.</p><p>I think you are going to have to learn to deal with a lot of things without pumping drugs in and if all else fails a bullet will be the final answer.</p><p>The point that a lot of people here fail to understand is that your new prescription requirements is not directly about drug resistance but is aimed at keeping drug residues out of your product both in your domestic market and in your export market.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1793276, member: 16453"] I think the world is changing rapidly and I can see down the track that most large animal Vets will be working for big pastoral companies as their resident Vet or Vets managing their herd health. Those that do farm visits to smaller farms will work for large corporate practices and when that does happen be prepared to pay for absolutely every service, every bit of advice. I have been out of the game now for over 15 years but when I left corporate Vet practices were already swallowing up the small city practices. I was told that pressure was put on the employed clinicians to meet targets for every consultation, recheck etc. They didn't care how you got there, selling prescription dog food or excessive pathology tests as long as you hit their target per consultation which even then was over $200. This along with the new prescription requirements will add a lot of costs and the corporate Vets won't be generous with giving out prescriptions either. I think you are going to have to learn to deal with a lot of things without pumping drugs in and if all else fails a bullet will be the final answer. The point that a lot of people here fail to understand is that your new prescription requirements is not directly about drug resistance but is aimed at keeping drug residues out of your product both in your domestic market and in your export market. Ken [/QUOTE]
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