Ethics: Blogs
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.
Blogs
Think public safety trumps employment law? Maybe… or not.
This fall, a young, female college student was murdered two blocks from my home. The victim was shot eleven times and the perpetrator...
Burnout: All Thing$ Equal
Most practices I’ve been involved in have some sort of hush-hush policy when it comes to employee wages.
In other words, employees are not “allowed” to...
You know a list of people we’d like to prevent from harming our interests. Most people find comfort in, “simple” lists. Unfortunately, life is not so simple.
Recently an animal...
The dilemma is this; some people for a variety of reasons choose not to vaccinate children or pets.
Some fear reactions. Some fear the number of insults an immune system gets with a series of...
The call was from a west coast practice and was obviously one made out of conscience, not business.
An older woman presented with a dog that needed emergency care. She was properly informed and...
In 2009, according to the Cato Institute, the USDA spent nearly two-thirds of its budget, some $79 billion, on food subsidies. Food stamps (now a debit card-type device); the school breakfast and...
Practice team members spend long days and nights together under extreme and varied emotional conditions...
The teams may feel exhilarated when a new litter of adorable puppies arrive, and then feel...
A trusted practitioner just called (literally, within the hour I wrote this). She has seen a dog with a gunshot wound; probably a .22 caliber projectile. Radiographs revealed fragments and some were...
A debate is making its way through the profession about a subject long ignored. Essentially, is there a universally accepted standard of animal care and use that fits companion animal practice and...
A group of goat breeders wants veterinarians to produce a short training video detailing how to disbud horns. A cattleman’s group wants veterinarians to conduct a c-section training workshop....
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