You'll never see a poor vet !!!
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Not quite - there is nothing about laypeople being drafted in to be human practitioners in the statute.
I'm just wondering where it says that vets can do this on humans but humans can't do it on vets.
That's 'national crisis'. What statute?
I did lol at that, but then again you did liken the cost implications of owning a pet (with emotion and feelings) to that of a car (with none).
You could have worded it better, and from your above quote, you now have.....and i thank you for the lolz.
No that wasnt me, I was arguing that the car analogy doesnt work.
Greebo was saying it was like owning a car.
At the end of it, its a subject where people lack complete objectivity when talking about it.
50 odd quid a month, £12 a week to service a heart condition, yeah what ever thats a reasonable cost.
£80 pound to have the cats paw fixed because he is a fighty boy and hes torn 2 of his claws off, yeah ok.
£30 for to have a seed removed from under his eyelid, fine.
£30 to have an abssces lanced and drained from a cut thats become infected- fine.
£125 to have his nuts off, Ok its something every responsible cat owner would do.
and so on and so on.
£5k for a hip replacement?
No.
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- Cost of new hip parts (you think this stuff comes cheap when some kind of small metal prodding tool costs like £400 new?)
- Xrays
- Assessment by vet with hip replacement experience or certificate in orthopaedic surgery
- Prep by vet nurse
- Firing up general anasthetic gear, oxygen
- Cost of general anaesthetic medication
- IV apparatus and fluids
- Cost of breathing apparatus
- Cost of at least one nurse for the anaesthetic and at least one vet to perform the surgery
- Cleanup by at least one nurse
- (Probable) more xrays
- Assessment by vet
- Care and checks by vet nurse/vet (out of hours care?)
- Post-op pain killers
You miss the point I am making, although yes, despite all that 5k is still too much.
I'm dissmising the idea of spending 5k on a dog for ANY reason.
The Vet could be replacing his legs with wolverine style adamantium covered bones and teflon knee caps, it wouldnt change the fact that its a waste of money.
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Funny you should say that. When asked, most people think a hip replacement on the NHS costs about £5k (according to a trust survey I read once). It actually cost that particular trust between £15,000 and £30,000 depending on the number of hospital contacts.
According to the Kings Fund, a hip replacement nationally costs at a minimum £5485 (one contact) to £11,795 (average contact).
Ok, I missed that
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Even with that.
The first google result sees the garden hospital charging £9100 to do a private hip replacement.
Drive to france for a couple of hundred quid and you can get it done with a minimal invasion and high quality parts for 6k.
Proberly more than £400 sure the human one costs more ill try to find out tho
they make knee/hip joints at where i work
I know what you mean, at the end of the day pets are expensive and we should be aware before taking one on, the car dealer thing doesn't hold up tho, i mean if i was quoted 50 bucks for some oil from BMW, i would just go to the motor factors and buy some, fill it up myself , with pets tho, you've got no where else to go, you are forced to go to the vets because their isn't any other options
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You can go to other vets...
Proberly more than £400 sure the human one costs more ill try to find out tho
A quick google search returns that a titanium hip joint for a person costs $300 before shipping, with a minimum order quantity of 10.
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According to my gf, metal hip joints for dogs can cost up to £2000 for the item itself.
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I think people in this country are always surprised at the costs involved in medical care because we have the NHS. If we had to pay for Human health care then maybe we would understand the pet costs better.
Still expensive though. I changed Vets recently because I thought the old vet was ripping us off and was miserable. Turns out they were just miserable.
Still expensive though. I changed Vets recently because I thought the old vet was ripping us off and was miserable. Turns out they were just miserable.
Nah you're just of the the costs they incur - if you wanted to choose a career purely for the money then there are a hell of a lot more easy options out there than becoming a vet. Like most other professionals they're well paid but not excessively so.
And they say they don't rip you off.