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Why aren’t there enough veterinarians?
April 06, 2022
BY ROGER WILLIAMS
rwilliams@floridaweekly.com
Dog Lucky with Amber Ruth, HSN clinic manager, before treatment. COURTESY PHOTO


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WHILE DR. DANA ZIMMEL, chief medical officer and dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Florida, spent a recent Saturday morning wondering if Gov. Ron DeSantis would sign the new budget legislators recommended to include money boosting enrollment in the college’s four-year program from 130 students to 150, Dr. Carla Francheville, a veterinarian on the southwest coast specializing in equine medicine, was wondering if she had the energy to get through the weekend.
Now in her 19th year of practice, her Saturday started at 6 a.m.
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A vet with a regional reputation from Bradenton to Naples for taking almost all calls and handling with skill some of the trickiest challenges in equine medicine, Dr. Francheville also is a wife and the mother of five children ranging in age from 3 to 18.
“Today I’m going from Fort Myers to Lehigh Acres to Bonita Springs to Naples to North Fort Myers to Pine Island to Punta Gorda,” she said, describing a geographic track of at least 160 miles to care for horses in three counties — Lee, Collier and Charlotte. Her workday would end after midnight in the dark hours of the following morning, followed by another day just like it.
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That’s not how she wants it, especially as a mother in mid-career, and at the age of 45.
In a three-day period each weekend, Dr. Francheville puts in as many as 50 hours. Her working husband can be with the children on the weekends when he isn’t working. She works typical daytime hours during the week, barring emergencies, so she can see her family.








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