Comments on Finally: Why veterinarians have a high suicide rate - Vital Animal® § The Natural Path

Thank you for this article. I have been a student of yours which lead me to a wild and wonderful journey working with a homeopath to cure my dogs and me. And, that it is doing in more ways than I thought possible.

I, thankfully, found a vet who never pushes anything on me, and does listen to what I say, and raises his eyebrows when I speak something that means something to him. My dogs get diagnostics done with him only.

I absolutely believe it must be an unsatisfying profession to see the same dogs coming through the doors with issue after issue. Yet they continue to prescribe vaccinations, heart, flea and tick etc.

I friend of mine had a year-old pup who died from liver failure. June 17th, 2022 she was given Nexguard. June 30th she stopped eating and only ate from the hand. July 6th she died.The vet said that's never happened in her practice before. I told her people, including vets, for some reason do not look at the big picture. Why would this dog die from liver failure. She was always with her people on leash. Coincidence that she died from liver failure less than a month after Nexguard?

I'm just so sad at the state of vet practices. With vets like you and Dr. Pitcairn, slowly but surely I hope vets start to take notice. I know you try, but your colleagues seem not to get it.

Wow! Will ... I have never thought of an inner sense of guilt fueling the high vet suicide rate. I have long felt, largely from reading your materials, that it is easier to consider and discuss care-induced symptoms, eg vaccinosis, in the veterinary world than in the human care world. Now I have a better sense of the possible price that thoughtful vets pay to work in this world. I will be having this discussion with my own wonderful vet. Thank you!

It’s hard to feel sorry for those who know they are ineffectual in their practice, are actually causing damage to the animals in their care, know there is a better way but just continue anyway.

I’ve talked to hundreds of pet owners when I worked in pet supply stores that specialized in raw food diets and alternative health supplements who spent 1000’s of dollars at their vets to try to cure their animals and came to us as a “last resort”. They were desperate. Only to find out that the food they were feeding, the vaccines their pets were getting, and the preventive flea, tick and heartworm they were giving, all at the advice of their vet, were actually causing the conditions their vet couldn’t cure. And almost immediately after starting a species appropriate, balanced, raw food diet they were amazed at the change in their pets and were well on their way to curing those allergies, diabetes, kidney problems, etc.

I still have “discussions” with my conventional vet about raw food diets, etc and even though she has been impressed over and over again by the vitality and resilience of my animals, she continues to defend feeding her own animals and selling those “prescription” diets to her patients without a hint of remorse. She should be so ashamed of herself. She’s been a vet for decades and still resists alternative health care solutions despite what she’s seen with her own eyes.

It should be considered negligence. It should be considered criminal. And perhaps if she didn’t get paid until she actually cured those in her care, she would change her ways.

Thank you Dr. Falconer. Sandy Grannis stated my thoughts perfectly. Appreciate all you do for pet parents and the veterinary community.

Thank you for this, Dr Falconer.
It is disheartening that conventional veterinary medicine seems to parallel human medicine. With guidance and information from you I am better armed and able to keep my vow to my dog - to keep her as well as possible for as long as possible. I do believe in many instances ‘less is more’.
Thank you, again