Posted by FionaJ on November 3, 2004, at 17:07:29
In reply to Re: Potassium, topamax and clomipramine, posted by bridgey1128 on November 3, 2004, at 15:02:28
> It's interesting, and a little scary, that a lot of Dr's start out in Vet school and flunk out and so they become medical Drs!! Vet school is VERY VERY difficult. I had a friend of mine just graduate in May of this year and she had STRAIGHT A's all through high school, plus being Valedictorian. When she went to NC State, she also made very high grades , mostly A's a couple of B's and it STILL took her an EXTRA year and a half to get into Vet school!! I was flabbergasted. She finally got her Doctorate this past May so I called her Docta Jones! Docta Jones! You know..like in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? Short Round. Then she got married....her married name is, of ALLLL things...SMITH!!! AYE AYE AYE! Her roommates name was Smith and got married to a Jones. They had a big laugh about that. But anyway, Vet school is HARD HARD HARD. I guess the drugs are cheaper because GOd knows everything else they charge you for isn't!! Trust me, I know! We have 6 cats, 2 dogs, a hamster and 2 hermit crabs!
One of the reasons I can think of why vet.drugs are much cheaper may be because of their registration process which is much easier than meds for human use. I know about 5 years ago the average figure was $260 milj dollars to get a drug registered for human use. And as you know many of the drugs used in vet.-meds were trialed for human use first, thus being already tested in animals of some kind as this is the trial that needs to be successful before the registering authority will allow human trials. Thus making everything so much cheeper.
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