Have you noticed a vet shortage in your area?
Related Posts
Conversation Starter
Bowl Leader
Thoughts on Trinity Partners?
'An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Use of Police Force' by Roland Fryer
Link to study:
https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-analysis-racial-differences-police-use-force
Some bullets:
- Blacks 53% more likely to experience any use of force relative to 15% for whites
- All controls available, officers 46.6% less likely to discharge firearms before being attacked if suspect is black.
- Black officers are more likely to shoot unarmed whites, relative to white officers.
- Blacks are 21% less likely to report voluntary interaction with police than whites.
Additional Posts in Veterinary Medicine
Favorite part of being a vet?
New to Fishbowl?
Download the Fishbowl app to
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
Absolutely! We have been hiring for years.
Yes but what is the driving force? COVID? no one going into the field? long hours? stress?
Yes, shortage in most places, especially rural areas. Many vets are leaving the profession due to compassion fatigue, being overworked, underpaid, poor working conditions, bad clients, lack of mental health support, etc.
Don’t forget parenting. I’ve lost count of all of the 5+ year vets that have reduced hours drastically to take care of kids.
Yep, everywhere. We would usually make up the shortfall with immigrants but we currently can't so the recruiters are crying to the government that they should let new grads in from overseas to fix our shortage (currently only citizens and permanent residents can enter the country except for a small number meeting strict criteria).
Yes, since last year. I do hope more enter the field. There are just so few clinics in my area and so many animals. We can't really handle everyone.
Yes. I wonder/hope this will do something to effect change in tuition and even prereqs for vet school. But I’m trying not to get my hopes up.
No. We have plenty of Vets around the area where I live and where our clinic is located. That's why competition here is tough because we have vet techs always available.
Ironically, I was Googling a school I'm applying for an MS at and found a 2013 thread on a forum about their new vet school. Pages and pages of vets saying we're oversaturated and that all these new vet schools need to stop opening! Yet here we are now.
Speaking of schools, it actually blows my mind how admissions are still so competitive given the veterinarian shortage. Why are most qualified applicants being rejected when the field is so understaffed?? Is it a lack of funding at these schools or what?
Not just my area. Vets with experience leave the profession since they feel it's not worth the stress, low pay and shitty management. If you stop the attrition, turn off the tap of people leaving and start doing things to retain vets, we will start to make progress on dealing with this shortage.