Tony
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I know that many, many of you use Carl for all your dental needs for your minis. As I mentioned before I am one of the plaintiffs that are suing the Texas State Board of Veterinary Examiners which sent a "cease and desist" letter to several equine dental people in February and another later in the year. We went to court today to try to get an injunction to keep them from being fined $1,000 per day if they continued to practice their profession in Texas. The board said that they would not enforce the fines and that they could keep practicing, but we still hoped for an injunction to make certain that was the case. We lost because the judge said that the requirements of the Cease and Desist letter were too broad.
We need your help NOW, please. We need people who use Carl or any "non-veterinarian" for your horses to write the head of the Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners. We need to flood his email and fax and mailbox with protests, LOUD AND LONG. Otherwise, you may not have any choice in choosing the best treatment for your horses. You will be limited to Veterinarians. I have checked with six that I use and NONE of them are interested in taking over Carl's place with my 275 head!!!
Time is short, so please don't put it off. We next have a hearing with the Board on October 30, just two weeks away. If we are complacent, our choices may be made for us, and I, for one, do not want to see that happen. I don't have my teeth worked on by my physician, and I don't want my horses worked on by anyone less skilled that what I now have.
At one of the breaks the head of the Board told me, "If Carl is so great, why don't you just hire him full time as an employee, then he can legally do your teeth." I told him that I only need him two times a year, but that shows the mentality that we are dealing with. The Institute for Justice is handling the case and calling it, "Challenging Texas' Elitist Veterinary Cartel." Most of the vets that I have talked to actually refer their patients to various Dental Practitioners because they don't want to bother with treatment themselves. Most have not been trained in dentistry, but many that have been have been trained by non-vet dental practitioners!
I know many of you have written before, and many of you several times, but those letters don't count now. We need a NEW FLOOD to hit the State Capitol!
Please contact Dewey E. Helmcamp III, J.D., Executive Director, Texas Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners to express you concerns.
Contact information: Phone: 512-305-7555 Fax: 512-305-7556
Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.tbvme.state.tx.us
We need your help NOW, please. We need people who use Carl or any "non-veterinarian" for your horses to write the head of the Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners. We need to flood his email and fax and mailbox with protests, LOUD AND LONG. Otherwise, you may not have any choice in choosing the best treatment for your horses. You will be limited to Veterinarians. I have checked with six that I use and NONE of them are interested in taking over Carl's place with my 275 head!!!
Time is short, so please don't put it off. We next have a hearing with the Board on October 30, just two weeks away. If we are complacent, our choices may be made for us, and I, for one, do not want to see that happen. I don't have my teeth worked on by my physician, and I don't want my horses worked on by anyone less skilled that what I now have.
At one of the breaks the head of the Board told me, "If Carl is so great, why don't you just hire him full time as an employee, then he can legally do your teeth." I told him that I only need him two times a year, but that shows the mentality that we are dealing with. The Institute for Justice is handling the case and calling it, "Challenging Texas' Elitist Veterinary Cartel." Most of the vets that I have talked to actually refer their patients to various Dental Practitioners because they don't want to bother with treatment themselves. Most have not been trained in dentistry, but many that have been have been trained by non-vet dental practitioners!
I know many of you have written before, and many of you several times, but those letters don't count now. We need a NEW FLOOD to hit the State Capitol!
Please contact Dewey E. Helmcamp III, J.D., Executive Director, Texas Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners to express you concerns.
Contact information: Phone: 512-305-7555 Fax: 512-305-7556
Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.tbvme.state.tx.us
