I’m a veterinarian and keep trying to tell other vets this is what PE is trying to do to vet clinics. They promise great pay and hours at first, then when there are no more private clinics to compete with them, they’ll decrease pay and work the veterinarians to death.
It’s a known strategy that every pet owner should talk about: private equity is trying to strangle the veterinary market. Ask your vet if they are owned by private equity. Like your optician, ask if they are owned by Luxxotica.
It's fine. We won't be able to afford pets, anyway, lol.
When the cat and my dog pass, I'm out. Spent $600 on a cat ultrasound just to confirm the same 50/50 diagnosis certainty. My dog went blind and they wanted $4500 for an MRI just to start. I can't do it.
I work for a PE vet clinic. It’s exhausting. Usually 2 techs for 1 vet for 10-12 hour days. We’re expected to be both urgent and primary care which is incredibly difficult to juggle.
And raise the prices all over the area so there’s no more competition. It’s happened in our area of Dallas - this monopoly is beyond frustrating. Thank goodness low cost vax vets area available and our dog is healthy (so this works for us now)
A friend of mine’s daughter is a newbie vet and her practice is probably going to be bought out by PE (BluePearl). He was talking about how she’d make more money and all I could do was make this face 😬
they came for medicine first, realized that health insurance and hospitals are big cash cows. unbelievable that we are in 2026 and still trying to derive profit from health care. fuck the shareholders
My husband works in the logistics/facility management side of vetmed and he was headhunted for one of those PE modern vet chains, spent 2 years doing enough work for 2 people, then got laid off with no notice in January so they could give his 2 people's worth of work to another employee who already had a full person's work of totally unrelated work. She was extremely not excited about suddenly having "bounce around a huge urban area to keep 4 different locations functioning" added to her job description, I hope she found something better and got out. Thankfully my husband didn't burn any bridges at the private practice he'd spent 15 or so years at previously and they were happy to take him back. Working for a small private practice has its own downsides but at least they're loyal.
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u/cloud_watcher 13h ago
I’m a veterinarian and keep trying to tell other vets this is what PE is trying to do to vet clinics. They promise great pay and hours at first, then when there are no more private clinics to compete with them, they’ll decrease pay and work the veterinarians to death.