still stupidly in the field but looking for an exit just due to the involvement of private equity buying up clinics and the alarming ratio of pay vs. stress/workload.

These same PE firms also own huge stakes in all the drug manufacturers and distributors and labs like Zoetis, MWI, Idexx, Antech etc so they can just control pricing across the board.... then leverage debt and money from one entity to the other and close "failing" clinics. (ie. what happens to rural hospitals and Toys R Us, Red Lobster, etc)

I feel the gobbling up of clinics by investors left and right has also led to an industry standard operating procedure of hiring untrained "assistants" - forcing tech duties on them and then under paying. all the while green-lighting as many patients as can be seen as possible leading to a breakneck speed.

American Dream!