RE: RCVS calls for evidence about 24-hour emergency cover

grumpyoldman — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:37:50 GMT

Having answered the phone to out of hours and attended emergency call outs since 1990 mostly on my own several things become very clear .

1.pre vetsnow some people were really crap at answering their phones and often left their clients without cover relying on other people to pick up the slack.They also got away with it for years .

2. Clients lie , they lie a lot and do it it regularly , they lie about being able to pay you, being already a registered client , the severity and seriousness of the injuries concerned .

They are also particularly good at being useless , and pathetic , especially those with low incomes and a poor level of academic achievement ( those living in rented accommodation are particularly guilty ).

Breeders ,often first contact , usually bulldogs etc wanting obstetric interventions out of hours are a nightmare , their dogs are a disaster and massive anaesthetic risk ,and they are expecting you to get them a litter of puppies for sale while working for next to nothing .

Drunks, drug addicts ringing at 2am wanting info on wormers and vaccines. None emergency enquiries out of hours ,the confusion over 24 hour emergency cover provision and 24 hour service AKA tesco .

The overal conclusion is that no one should be bullied into seeing and doing business with these shitty horrible people if they prefer not too . Attendance out of hours should be entirely at the discression of the individual at the shit end of the stick and not some bunch of has been sitting in horse ferry road .