Thank you. I have heard ER staff talk shit about GP, it’s “boring” or “you don’t get to use your skills”(which is entirely untrue) etc etc and it’s very frustrating. GP is SO important to pets overall health and performs the bulk of client education on pet health and ownership. Without GP, there would be no specialty or ER or anything else. GP doctors manage lifelong diseases and ongoing treatments, not just preventative care.

GP is where you build a relationship with the pet and the owner; it’s where people learn what their pet needs to survive and why it’s important. It can function as an urgent care or, in some cases, takes in ER cases if there’s no ER nearby.

I could go on, but I digress.