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A Vet’s Life – compassion fatigue, burnout and suicide.
Veterinarians are stressed. Keeping our pets and farm animals healthy and alive and well appears to make veterinarians sick and suicidal. Apparently, it is not a bed of roses for veterinarians and many consider the profession an extremely stressful one. They are allegedly four times more likely to commit suicide than us ordinary folk, twice…
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Veterinary practice is changing. Should we be worried?
The days of James Herriot are long gone. The days of James Herriot, the famous kindly Yorkshire vet, willing to come to the aid of any animal at any time of the day or night and only accepting a cup of tea or a home-baked cake as payment are long gone and even the modern…