{"id":10303,"date":"2024-07-29T19:17:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T19:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2024\/07\/29\/letters-colorado-veterinarians-need-help-allowing-vet-pas-is-the-answer\/136354\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T19:17:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T19:17:46","slug":"letters-colorado-veterinarians-need-help-allowing-vet-pas-is-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/letters-colorado-veterinarians-need-help-allowing-vet-pas-is-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Colorado veterinarians need help. Allowing vet &#8220;PAs&#8221; is the answer."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/letters-colorado-veterinarians-need-help-allowing-vet-pas-is-the-answer\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/tdp-z-opletters-01_433c9f-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/letters-colorado-veterinarians-need-help-allowing-vet-pas-is-the-answer.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/letters-colorado-veterinarians-need-help-allowing-vet-pas-is-the-answer-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-yarpp-template-inarticle-right\">\n<aside class=\"article-related right\">\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Creating veterinary \u201cPAs\u201d would provide more care for Colorado pets<\/p>\n<p>Re: \u201cI\u2019m a veterinarian and a lawmaker; don\u2019t let big businesses undermine pet care,\u201d June 13 commentary and \u201cProtecting animals or protectionism? The rhetoric around online vet care,\u201d June 23 commentary<\/p>\n<p>As three veterinarians who have started veterinary hospitals and practiced in Colorado for many years, we would like to express our support for Initiative 145. This November ballot measure would create a new Veterinary Professional Associate (VPA) position in Colorado. Like the Physician\u2019s Assistant (PA) position we have all benefited from for 50 years in human medicine, these individuals would be able to do myriad important tasks for animals in hospitals, clinics and shelter settings, helping to relieve the veterinary shortages that exist now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/07\/29\/colorado-veterinarian-training-pa-masters-vet\/\">Read the rest of this story on TheKnow.DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles Creating veterinary \u201cPAs\u201d would provide more care for Colorado pets Re: \u201cI\u2019m a veterinarian and a lawmaker; don\u2019t let big businesses undermine pet care,\u201d June 13 commentary and \u201cProtecting animals or protectionism? The rhetoric around online vet care,\u201d June 23 commentary As three veterinarians who have started veterinary hospitals and practiced in Colorado [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7420,5662,2435,9,8088,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[7421,5668,2436,8089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}