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Regardless the user names don't really tell me much. I now see that it is amd not and. This isn't really helping the original poster much. I've apologized for coming across wrong so I'll leave it at that as this is just going on and on without even remotely giving the original poster anything in the past few posts about what they were originally asking about.

Thank you for your apology. I hope that in the future, you'll be more careful not to make sweeping generalizations that can come across quite inflamatory.

Siandvm is not the only vet on the forum. She's currently been the most active in sharing her wisdom with the forum, and it was upsetting to much of the membership to see her profession maligned and dismissed out of hand with such a sweeping generalization.

Another poster in this thread's daughter is also a veterinarian, so I can understand how that hurt her as well.

Hopefully this experience will help you to think how your words can/could hurt someone, even if you didn't intend it to. Never make broad sweeping generalizations. Because most of the time, they aren't true, AND they can really be like a knife to the heart of someone included in that group that was generalized. Particularly Veterinarians who have dedicated their life to helping animals and not hurting them. As a side note - did you know that the suicide rate of Veterinarians is higher than many other professions? Think about why that might be. One of my beloved veterinarians committed suicide and it broke my heart.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifesty...6/09/18/why-many-veterinarians-commit-suicide/iCCgr46bIJpgEeesPHTe2L/story.html