There is a familiar phrase muttered around veterinary medicine from time to time: “They don’t make them like they used to.” It is usually said with a sigh, a shake of the head, or a thinly disguised frustration about the next generation of vets entering practice. Sometimes it is dressed up as concern. Sometimes it is much less kind than that. But whether we say it out loud or not, many practice leaders are carrying some version of that belief. New graduates are too fragile. T