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Ohio State opens animal clinic in Dublin, upsetting some vets
- Carrie Ghose
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Ohio State University’s Veterinary Medical Center offers ophthalmology, MRI, even a blood bank, just like the Wexner Medical Center a few blocks away. Under the knife, after all, humans still are mammals.
But the veterinary business is a whole different animal.
With state support dwindling and university bond funds promised to the Wexner expansion and student housing, Ohio State vet school leaders say they must be entrepreneurial to survive.
“The university views us as an earnings unit,” said Karin Zuckerman, director of the veterinary hospital, which barely breaks even on $15 million in revenue. “We are a business.”
The school’s ...
Carrie Ghose covers health care and medicine, higher education, technology and business services for Business First.
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