When you go to a vet clinic, you are paying for the expertise of these medical professionals, no different from seeing a doctor who studies the human body. Clients subconsciously downplay the professional advice they are receiving and complain that vet care is so expensive because they do not view it as real medicine. Vet clinics  are  a business, and they must charge what is necessary to make a profit to stay in business and continue to do their job of helping animals. Often

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