£585 to visit the vet

Re: £585 to visit the vet

Martin Atkinson — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:25:46 GMT

[quote user="Dagmar Steele"]ah and yes, we do get the ones telling the papers and the TV stations that most Vets only think of money not of the pets and he, only he is different from the rest (one of them resides in the same city, I tend to send him all my "social" cases as he's claimed an telly so many times he'll do them for free)[/quote] We have one in Bolton now who does it for free. Trouble is that's 200 miles I have to send my 'social' cases but hopefully Gillian and fellow vets in that area can use them to their advantage for that. Anyway Dagmar, you can't have any poor people in Germany we know you're all rich, at least that's what the Greeks, Portuguese, Spanish and Italians tell us!

Re: £585 to visit the vet

Gillian Mostyn — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:10:46 GMT

[quote user="Malcolm Ness"]

[quote user="Stephen Courtney"]I think, on average, I can cure most acute things for about £60.[/quote]

Sixty quid!! I'll do it for fifty five and you can watch me working through a funky glass screen or even catch me later on the telly if you prefer.

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I'll see your £55 and glass screen and raise you by a handpicked team of qualified vets and nurses!

Re: £585 to visit the vet

Dagmar Steele — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:12:59 GMT

[quote user="Malcolm Ness"]

Sixty quid!! I'll do it for fifty five and you can watch me working through a funky glass screen or even catch me later on the telly if you prefer.

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I can do it for even less... and even though we have a law here telling us how much we have to charge min and how much we can charge max many of my lovely colleagues fight to be even cheaper than the rest, some of them even go beyond the minimum charge (the prices are from 1999, marginally altered in 2008). And we are still called greedy by the great German public....

ah and yes, we do get the ones telling the papers and the TV stations that most Vets only think of money not of the pets and he, only he is different from the rest (one of them resides in the same city, I tend to send him all my "social" cases as he's claimed an telly so many times he'll do them for free)

Re: £585 to visit the vet

Hannah Wynne Richards — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:04:13 GMT

If only

Seriously I think they mean the average claim-which could involve complicated surgery or a whole years treatment for an on=going condition

Wynne

Re: £585 to visit the vet

Malcolm Ness — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:54:48 GMT

[quote user="Stephen Courtney"]I think, on average, I can cure most acute things for about £60.[/quote]

Sixty quid!! I'll do it for fifty five and you can watch me working through a funky glass screen or even catch me later on the telly if you prefer.

Re: £585 to visit the vet

Stephen Courtney — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:45:15 GMT

I think, on average, I can cure most acute things for about £60. I only ask clients back if I think need to make sure something has responded - there is little point on dragging them back to tell me I was right and it all worked like i said it would - hell, I expect that. I'm quite good at what i do. and to be honest most things get better by themselves. It is severe illnesses and injuries that separate the adults from the pubescents. and for these, the direct line estimate is probably too low.

chronic illnesses are a difficult area though - i find it really hard to keep charging for ongoing conditions, especially once i have built a personal relationship with a client.

Re: £585 to visit the vet

James Laidlaw — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:33:52 GMT

Well, a visit to the vet that ends up being a claim on insurance may be around that level, but not "your average visit to the vet"