Why do veterinarians specialize in types of animals but human doctors specialize in body parts?
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Human docrers specilize as phisicians,dentests,heart,kidney,eye docters,but vets specilize in types of animals such as marine life,exotic animals,life stock,and domestic animals,but the animals they specilize in they check on every part of there body thats like being a phisician and other branches.These vets have a harder job doing more than one kind of animal species and more body parts but human docters do one specie and one body parts.Why.At the end of the day the human docters are payed more.Correct me if im wrong[just guesing from my experiance but not sure.Is it possible that vets specilize in body parts like humandocters?
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Human docrers specilize as phisicians,dentests,heart,kidney,eye docters,but vets specilize in types of animals such as marine life,exotic animals,life stock,and domestic animals,but the animals they specilize in they check on every part of there body thats like being a phisician and other branches.These vets have a harder job doing more than one kind of animal species and more body parts but human docters do one specie and one body parts.Why.At the end of the day the human docters are payed more.Correct me if im wrong[just guesing from my experiance but not sure.Is it possible that vets specilize in body parts like humandocters?
Ignore my miss spelled words coz i **** in spelling just anser my question regularaly and no comments on my spelling pleaseeeeeeeeeeee.
Tags: Exotic Animals, Experiance, Types Of Animals
February 8th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
There is a premium placed on human life, hence the additional value placed on the skill of doctors. General Practitioners do a little of everything, kind of like vets, but then will refer to a specialist if needed.
Vets do indeed know alot about several species but are unlikely to go to the depth of knowledge a human specialist has. There is also less study on animal medicine so there is less information available to vets.
Vets specialize as well. A regular city vet is not going to handle livestock, and vice versa. There are specialists for horses, cattle, etc, exotic animals like reptiles.
It’s more complex than you think.
February 8th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Just a guess…. human life and health is valued more than animals and fish.
As much as people dont want to believe it, humans are at the top of the food chain.
Thats a really, really good question. The animal doctors do have a harder job. I used to assist with a horse vet and it was amazing. Now… he actually is LOOOAAAADDDDED but maybe its just the size of his practice. Who knows
But once again, I think it may have to do with insurance and which is valued more.
February 11th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
That’s an interesting thought, but there are vets that also specialize, ie: Eyes for one.
There are many pay-scale injustices. Income is not always based on education; sometimes it’s pure politics (who you know) We don’t put enough value on some occupations like teachers, nurses. Many doctors are not high-income earners as they choose to work for organizations such as Kaiser.
February 13th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Are you curious to work in veterinary medicine? I have heard that veterinary medicine is harder to get into; there are far less veterinary schools than medical schools. Veterinary schools cost about 130,000 dollars a year for four years, plus a Bachelor’s degree is required. I don’t know how much it is for medical school a year, but I am sure doctors have much easier time paying back their student loans than veterinarians do. Veterinarians make money from their clients. For example, you check in your dog, Fluffy, to ABC Veterinary Hospital, and you pay for her to spayed or neutered, and you pay for your vaccines, and I hope for yearly dentals. If she is healthy you are lucky because you don’t have to pay as much as if you had to take her to an emergency vet or if she had diabetes or another chronic disease. Having patience with clients and good customer service skills is very essential, because that is how they get their business. If a client has a bad experience, they will let their friends know, and if they have a good experience they will spread the word and your clientele will grow. I guess doctors get paid either way, but if a client can’t end up paying their vet for services than the vet is out of money.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:41 am
We don’t always specialize in body parts. I’m an anesthesiologist. I specialize in peri-operative patient care - all patients, all body parts.
We ARE limited to just the one species, though.
Why are we paid more? Human life is worth more. We can’t “put them down” to end suffering, or because it would cost to much to take care of them.
Animals are property (despite what PETA thinks). People are not.
Vets do have a hard job, no doubt. People are not paid according to how hard their job is. Migrant farm workers have a hard job. Janitors have a hard job.
I doubt vets have the constant threat of lawyers hoping to destroy their career and take everything they own, like we do. I also doubt their malpractice premiums are close to ours.
February 18th, 2009 at 2:06 am
veterinarians DO specialize in ‘body parts’….eg, a vet can be board certified and specialize in caridology, opthalmology, internal medicine…..etc…