Do Vets Know What They're Doing?

What are we to make of professional journals noting "if tumor recurs, make certain second surgery is done by a qualified surgeon." What are we to make of folks performing make-or-break treatments when they are utterly unqualified? What allows them to practice in this way?

I would think the joy of being an independent practitioner would be the chance to always put the bar higher ... always expect more from yourself ... always keep up. The flood of gratitude that washes upon vets when much loved pets are saved ... isn't that enough of an incentive?

I wouldn't have thought that I could possibly be more horrified than I was. But these 8 months of working through the literature has undone me. To have gone in Jan 07 to our specialists of 20 years (absolutely wonderful then ... but they obviously have felt no need to keep up) with Natty ... complaint: every night after falling asleep he awakens with a sharp cry and gnaws at his right flank. Answer (after a $600 workup): Behavioral ... sometimes cats just go wiggy. When I asked the oncological team, shortly after his surgery, whether any of them thought that was the beginning of his cellular changes ... each vehemently agreed. Though I do not believe that there was any intervention possible at that point, I wish that I had been believed that something dreadfully was wrong with Natty.