My career

Veterinary Medicine is a very old career and has been evolving along with the way people thinks about animals and the new technologies in treatments and diagnosis, but from my perspective is the most difficult health career to practice, because of many factors.

One of them is the way people see animals, they think of them as mere objects and mostly their reason to live is to amuse its owners, so a person would not accept an animal which causes him a considerable outcome of money, even if that decides the life of it. I realize this thought is decreasing as years pass, but still most of the people does conceive animals as I wrote before, and until we don’t change that, we will always be limited in what we can do for these creatures. In my opinion animal are better than men, they show you extreme loyalty, never act with bad intentions and always appreciate if you do something for them…well, that’s why I chose this medicine.

In addition, I think our career is not very respected, people see us as animal trainers or something, but anything like a real doctor, so they doubt about our skills, knowledge, etc. But you know what, at some point they are right, because we don’t get the education and practice we need, I’ve learned that in five years it is impossible for anyone to be prepared to treat, operate and deal with the challenges that a doctor must face. However, increasing the length of this career would be an error if you think how bad we get paid and haw low is the respect, that way people would decide not to study a career which would take as many years as human medicine and that gives you so little opportunities. Those adjustments should be done only when Chile starts to think as a first world country, otherwise it would not be worthy.

This is a tough profession and one of the most beautiful one, only the courage and really talented people can take all this and succeed after all, I only hope I turn out to become one of those people.