The Annual Food Animal Rotation at New Bolton Center offers good discounts for bovine/small ruminant surgery and medical cases referred in to Penn for treatment in the next several weeks. Not only a good savings for you, but helps out students to see 'normal' cases that they will be encountering in practice. (I know this as a member of the original March Madness crew in 1989). Have a calf with a hernia? Great time to have her repaired.
There is a continuing 'twist' this year - the first 8 LDA's of each 2 week rotation will be done for free, and for other cases they will pretty much offer a free evaluation and depending on the nature of the problem, can discuss cost of treatment and discounting.
It starts today Monday, February 25th and goes for 4 weeks through March 24th. Take advantage of the expertise at Penn Vet, save some money and help your cattle, sheep, and goats, not to mention future livestock veterinarians.
Cool idea, thanks for sharing. I don't think there was anything similar to this discount program at Tufts. Are other local referring vets like you generally fans as well, or do they see it as stealing business?
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, thanks for the comment.
ReplyDeleteFor my part, I don't see it as that at all - i've not heard locally of any criticism, it's seen as an education process for a small limited portion of the year. And, as you point out, it's a referral process, not solicited directly to producers. As well, it's a terrific resource to have the University hospital available year-around for difficult cases that need further workup than can be done on-farm.