Ethics: Articles
Veterinarians and veterinary team members are often on the ethical front lines. Balancing the demands of clients, patients, animal health, industry, team members, society, business, and animal welfare is a gargantuan undertaking. This section will assist you in addressing the ethical dilemmas, big and small, that impact your every day work.
Articles
All euthanasia is convenient; handling it is the issue.
As completely defined, convenience euthanasia (CE) is the humane killing of an animal that is no longer wanted alive for any reason by its...
Thinking (hoping desperately?) that YouTube, Facebook, Google+, blogs, and Twitter will fade away like 8-track tapes is an exercise in futility, much like Lady Grantham’s attitude toward...
As veterinary health care providers, most of us encounter death and loss frequently, often on a daily basis. We observe how our clients, their family and friends, and our co-workers are affected by...
Many of us have experienced working with a toxic superstar—that technically talented team member who lacks self-awareness and self-management, causing everyone to tippy-toe around him or her...
You’ve heard the saying, “Everything’s bigger in Texas.” Well if a recent ruling by a Texas appeals court is upheld, “everything” could now include veterinary...
A 10-year-old Yorkie died unexpectedly after receiving the third mitotane (Lysodren, drugs.com/pro/lysodren.html) tablet you dispensed to treat her Cushing’s disease. You know that either you...
Like all health professionals, veterinarians go into medicine to help and heal. And yet, doctors are human and medicine doesn’t always have good outcomes.
Even with full conformance to the...
My task this month was to write about the benefits of developing emotional intelligence skills—the ability to recognize and manage one’s own emotions to meet life’s challenges....
"The Elephant in the Living Room" is a groundbreaking new documentary that explores the controversial practice of raising dangerous exotic animals as household pets.
EVT sat down with...
With increased client awareness of the benefits of the human–animal bond and advances in preventive and specialized veterinary medicine, veterinarians today face an increased risk for...
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