Disruption in the Veterinary Industry | Susanna Samuelsson | TEDxDarwin
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- The Veterinary Industry has not experienced much change for decades. Now with the onset of Veterinary Telemedicine, the scene is set for disruption.
Dr Sue has been a veterinarian in the Northern Territory for 13 years and is owner of Gove Veterinary Services in East Arnhem Land. She is the founder of i-Vet, Australia’s first pet telemedicine service designed to support regional and remote pet owners, and those people isolated by disability and illness. She is passionate about utilising technology in creative ways to provide accurate assistance to people unable to reach it. She is also a strong advocate for sole charge vets in small communities, particularly those with families, utilising telemedicine as support for work life balance.
Dr Sue has a Bachelor of Science degree, Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery and Masters Degree in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery from Murdoch University in Western Australia.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
I wonder if an app could be written that would use a cellphone's abilities to aid the vet to get some of the animal's vital signs, such as heartbeat, pupil dilation, or temperature. My phone has a better microphone than my computer, and the camera can be used as a very strong magnifier, the LED is absolutely blinding up close, and the accelerometer is amazingly sensitive. There should be a way to use these and other capabilities to improve diagnosis.
The audio guy needs to be fired ha
Well I suggest reading Teddy Doctors from K.G. I'm impressed that I kind of understand the vets now. Something needs to be done to save them.
Lack of affordability has nothing to do with responsibility of an animal or any vet. This is my opinion. It's like getting that car you always wanted and then not being able to afford insurance but you also expect it to run forever with no hiccups ever. Your pet is going to get sick it will die. You should put money in savings when you get the pet...or start insurance in the beginning🙌🙌. Plan these things out and a life is not a gift to give without the other person understanding basic financial planning and responsibility. It is not the vets job nor the clinics to have payment plans after all the college and long hours they put in you want them to also go to business school😂 It is the owners responsibility to understand not just the care but financial planning for when that animal WILL get sick and die. We are overseers of animals prepare! No different than a child...kids get sick don't they...it's expected 💯 so do our pets so it's best to PREPARE!!! And take responsibility for that life you love so much but it's someone else fault for what you didn't prep for Financially 🤬🤔🤔🤔 I mean honestly
What if you did save up for your pet’s emergencies, but your savings were depleted because of COVID? Does that give medical professionals the right to deny emergency medical care if you don’t have the thousands upfront they want? If a human goes to an emergency room and doesn’t have insurance, do the ER doctors refuse to help the sick patient. No, they don’t because it’s against the law. An animal Is not a car. It is a sentient being. They should not be denied emergency treatment based on lack of income. Payment plans should be offered.
@@dianaferrara2985 in the US all of the veterinary hospitals I’ve worked at have taken Care Credit so that’s a payment plan option that is pretty widely available (not sure if it’s available outside the US though). Also more and more clinics with sliding scale income based costs are becoming available but often you’ll need to search for these as I don’t see them advertised. If I have a client who can’t afford care due to job loss, fixed income ect.. … it’s a great resource.
@@dianaferrara2985 That's a nice sentiment, but you have to be realistic about the consequences of giving away care for free when the cost of running the clinic, materials, and support staff are not subsidized by government or insurance as in human medical care. Vets with $200k+ of student debt who will likely never retire cannot afford to be paying for treatments for every disaster that walks into the clinic; if they habitually pay these costs from the business rather than personal savings, the clinics will end up closing and be unable to continue caring for any pets. These moral conundrums are not rarities - they are frequent, daily occurrences in vet clinics and contribute to the emotional distress that a lot of vets endure.
Payment plans are not a perfect fix because a large proportion of bills paid with payment plans default or go unpaid forever. Once Fluffy is taken care of, many owners don't make it a priority to pay their vets, or they had agreed initially knowing full well they could not afford to pay, because the choice is between lying or their pet's life.
Doctors should not refuse all care if there's no money available, but sometimes the only humane option when care cannot be afforded is either surrender of the animal to a rescue group or euthanasia. It sucks, and its not what anyone wants to see happen, but this is real life, not a Disney movie, and if you take on a pet with uncertain finances you have to accept that disasters can occur that you won't be able to fix. I don't have pets right now, not because I don't love them and wish I could, but because I know that I can't afford emergency medical care if they would need it.
😆it is a fight and a half.... and what a field this is.. challenges on every front, BUT so many opportunities as well.. cheers
How about adapting to the fact that people don't want to feed dead pets to their pets anymore!? How about teaching actual nutrition in veterinary school so pets stay healthier longer? Pet owners are being forced to educate themselves and the trust in the industry is breaking. They are what they eat.
of course you can feed home cooked food!
This is a vet you definitely don't want working on your pet!
are you serious? Why?
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can I get her email address? please
What a mess! Completely pointless talk.
What do you mean? I thought it was good insight into a subject I wasn't familiar with before, and into problems I hadn't thought of before
@@ZombixMix You know what? You're absolutely right. Perhaps I'm biased since I'm a veterinarian myself. Just because it felt pointless and messy to me, doesn't mean it has to be to others. I guess what happened was I'm so used to this stuff it's kind of old news, and on top of that, the delivery is far from optimal.
But I'm happy it worked for you.
@@breeknowits actually really interesting to see a vet's outlook in comparison to lay people like us