Veterinarians Chicago IL

By Jill Sherer Murray for WebVet

The treatment your veterinarian and their vet technicians provide is worth the price you must pay.  Often you're finishing up with the vet when the receptionist delivers the good news: The bill is ready for you. Now for the bad news: It'll cost you a chunk of change for baby's Bordetella shot and its freshly emptied anal sacs.

But why should you have to pay so much to help a poor, defenseless (not to mention super cute) creature? After all, if you can't find charity at the vet's office, where can you?

Ask Georgette Wilson, DVM, manager of vet operations at Pfizer Animal Health in New York City, and she'll tell you that charity is all a matter of perspective.

"If you're looking for an educated, compassionate, and fair hand in the care and well-being of your animal, chances are your vet's already giving it in droves,'' Wilson said. "Unfortunately, too many people fail to recognize the value vets bring to their pets. We're asked over and over again that, if we love animals so much, why aren't we offering our services for free?''

To answer that question -- and help you understand why veterinarians are worth their weight in currency -- the following are four things you may not know about them, but should. They just may change the way you think about paying on the way out.

#1: They are trained as vigorously as doctors of human medicine.

Consider this:

• It takes four years of college and four years of v...

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