They have all gone crooked around here also.....jack the bill as high as possible,even when they know they are just buying time and raking in money. 
Have they gone crooked, or do you have a lot of crooked lawyers just waiting to sue anyone for any reason now living and operating in your area? Sometimes there's more to the picture than what's on the surface. the vets that I have used for my pets have all been honest and upstanding from what I can tell. I wouldn't trust most lawyers very far though. Just look at what a mess those that call themselves "congressmen" and "senators" have created lately.
Not in my case. I have morning coffee with a long-standing local vet. He has practiced in this rural, agricultural area for at least 40 years.
He sold his clinic located here in this crossroads hamlet and is semi-retired, working 2-3 days per week. No lawsuit fever around here, but Doc really doesn't agree with the way the new owners operate; the whole program of drawn out exams, tests and 'wellness programs', but he says that's the trend. Vet schools are so costly that new vets are saddled with unbelieveable debts, and like the bloated government most of us did not want..John Q. has to pick up the tab.
"Doc" is no slouch..raised on a farm and educated at Penn State and Cornell, he knows his business. He normally works at a substation about 12 miles away. When my wife's little pet , 'rag mop' dog grew a cyst (in the 'armpit' of a front leg), I took her with me one morning and had Doc take a look, over coffee. He said it was benign, but if it grew to interfere or cause mobility problems, he would remove it.
It grew, so one day by prearrangement, I took it to the original home clinic and he removed it. Cost me $300, but I can't figure what it would have costif we had gone through the usual labrynthian procedure.
I have in my earlier years had kennels of Airedales and Jack Russells which I bred, trained and hunted. With such costs, I would hesitate doing that now days.
