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395 - Where Are the Greatest Opportunities for Access to Care?
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- May 7, 2026
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Summary
Dr. Andy Roark hosts Dr. Jules Benson, founder and principal of Titum Lucidum Consulting, to push the access-to-care conversation from advocacy into practical, feasible actions veterinary teams can take now. They frame access to care as a broad spectrum, noting growth in specialty access while affordability challenges are expanding even for middle-income households, and they stress veterinary medicine’s cash-based reality and the lack of a true safety net. Benson argues access solutions must be sustainable business models, citing data-driven opportunities and examples such as proactively normalizing financing options, focused care models like high-quality high-volume spay and neuter, dental and surgery centers, mobile specialists, and imaging centers. They discuss expectation-setting, community-of-care coordination, telemedicine uncertainty, and the competitive tensions between independent and corporate models.