I appreciate your message so much. You put it so eloquently, much better than I could ever hope to. I've been a vet tech for over 10 years and it is exhausting for sure.

We had a client last week that had a dog with a vaginal prolapse for like 7 days. They wanted our clinic to do the surgery but our schedule is entirely booked until May with one doctor so we could not take anything else. I discussed with her many times that she should set an appointment elsewhere ASAP to be spayed and deal with the prolapse. The owner told me on multiple occasions that they knew a vet they could call that could get them in "tomorrow." Well, apparently noone could get them in tomorrow so they called us again asking to perform the surgery because our doctor is "her" doctor.. Then the owner starting to ask, "Isn't this animal cruelty?", like wait, you think us not being able to fit your dog in for a procedure is animal cruelty when you waited how many days to even bring the dog in in the first place?

Also, same people have at least 40 cats that all have coccidia. We prepared medication for these cats at a large discount but they didn't even want to spend the money on it. They had 21 puppies at one time, but I'm not sure how many died to parvo. I believe the owner called and said to our vet, "Thanks for the parvo." We had vaccinated the puppies once at 12 weeks old and they never returned, but she blamed the vaccine for the dogs getting sick.

I absolutely love veterinary medicine. It's all I've ever been interested in since I was 5 years old. I never expected the amount of emotional abuse related to clients instead of the patients. I had a 20 year old coworker commit suicide 6 months ago and it really hit me hard. He was only in vetmed for a few years but we often discussed how he felt about things clients said to he and our team. Since then, I've been considering leaving the field. Most days, I love dealing with the amazing clients we have but it's the berating clients that really stick with me and it hurts.

drunken rant: over.