Vet School v. Med School

I don't remember who said it to me, but I was talking to someone about vet school a few days ago and about how we do the same things they do in medical school, especially the first 2 years, but about 6-10 species instead of 1. The response was "yeah, but you go into less depth, right?"

My response was something along the lines of "... No. We do the same depth. And more, sometimes."

Because, really, we do. Granted, there are some things that we skip over because they're just not going to happen in the veterinary world (trying to correct an exencephaly, for example. That's when you brain protrudes through your skull at birth because things didn't go right in the womb. Granted, your GP doesn't know how to fix this either.) Though, the gap between human and animal medicine gets slimmer every day (A&M does at least 12 greater than $1000 MRIs a week. That's just unbelievable to me!)

But, really, we know everything about animals that your GP knows about how you work... plus more! Your GP isn't going to be putting you under general anasthesia him/herself. Your GP isn't going to cut you open and move your organs around (either in a spay/neuter, or a gastropexy, or an intestinal anastamoses. All of these are surgeries regular vets do pretty frequently.)