I support the petition because the story of Bertram is a common example of how and why pets are brought to the teaching facilities of a University Hospital.  Pets with special, difficult, unusual symptoms are brought in order to receive the oversight of highly trained veterinarians from many specialty areas.  The hospitals are advertised as such.  A laissez faire attitude by the licensed veterinarians employed by the University defeats the purpose of such an academic setting.

Whether it is the University itself or Regents or other oversight bodies that takes a step away from responsibility in the administration of medicine, it is making a self-serving, self protective step which is a disservice to the community of pet owners that it serves.  It is the pet owning community that supports the hospital and provides the animals on which the university can pracitce its highest level of veterinary medicine.

I was on regulatory veterinary medical boards and I know that this petition seeks the best training for the students by using the highest standards of training by the teachers.