Vets and quacks
From L A. S. Gibson, MRCVS
Sir: It is annoying to find in a thoughtful journal such a thoughtless comment as John Linklater's "treatment is often cursory, and sometimes at a veterinary level". No one would pretend that the objectives and priorities of human and veterinary medicine are the same: nevertheless, the standards of expertise available to the public from the two professions are of the same order. Moreover, our clients frequently assert that the s,ervice we provide is more prompt, more sympathetic, and less cursory, than that provided by their doctors. If the medical profession persists in making snide comments about us, it must expect us in turn to point out that there are more would-be vets among the doctors than there are failed doctors among the vets.
Laurence A. S. Gibson Manor Cottage, Boycott Manor, Buckingham
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