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Penn Vet students say they’re working 100-hour weeks and patient care is suffering

Scores of current students and recent graduates say that Penn Vet sees them more as an unpaid labor pool to tap than students who are paying more than $60,000 a year to be educated.

Exterior of Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania, where 65 students have complained of working more than 100 hours a week to ease nursing shortages.
Exterior of Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania, where 65 students have complained of working more than 100 hours a week to ease nursing shortages.Read moreAlejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer