Reply #17: Yeah. I always have to laugh at how medical students whine

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about how HAAAARRRRDDDD medical school is. Hell, they only have to learn about the inner workings and ills and treatment of ONE species. We have to learn about ALL THE REST. We could learn a single species in our sleep.

Will Rogers once said something about vets being the best, smartest doctors in the world, because their patients couldn't tell them what was wrong. We just had to "know".

I rather prefer the way somebody compared Ginger Rogers' dancing to Fred Astaire's. Ginger had to do everything Fred did, but backwards and in high heels. That's sort of like us vets. We are seriously handicapped by our patients' inability to speak, clients' lack of funds, our own shortage of trained assistants at our beck and call, and inadequate equipment. Yet our clients have virtually the same expectations of us as they do of their own physicians - sometimes even higher. This isn't helped by the TV mentality, where folks truly believe that it's possible to diagnose and successfully treat a serious medical condition in one to two hours, lol.

My profession surely must attract large numbers of true psychics. How else would we be able to succeed in patient treatment at all???