So technicians have struggled to be heard for years. If you prefer them over a LVT then should we just have google be the doctor? I cannot believe what they are allowed to do anyway with no knowledge.  Would anyone want anyone other than a nurse with a degree drawing blood, putting a catheter into a human.  Would you rather have a janitor monitor anesthesia?  If veterinarians want people to respect them for the medicine they provide then they need to have a staff that is as respectable and knowledgable as they present themselves to be.   You ask to be as respected as human doctors then you have to stand by your tech/nurses to uphold the education they have not street knowledge.  I have seen street knowledge record a glucose of 23 and walk away, why, they have no idea that is important for the animal that was brought in seizuring.