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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
That consultation fee is for the ability to go to an afterhours style urgent care facility and see a doctor. You pay more for that convenience. The doctor doesn't actually get that money. The physician is an employee of that center and gets paid somewhere between $50 and $75 and hour to staff the center depending on the contract. A business runs the center and will shut down, leaving you with no convenient place to see a doctor for your broken wrist, if they cut back on the fee allowable.
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Not to try and compare veterinary medicine to human medicine but this is exactly what I try tell my clients that see me at the ER. Yes we are more expensive but at least we are here at 2 AM to see Fluffy who has been very sick for a week- then I ask "why again didn't you take her to your regular vet?" I love the blank stares I get when I ask that question. I am so sick of people bithcing about the prices we charge when 80% of the things i see are preventable or could have been dealt with for a lower cost by their regular veterinarian.