Apr 1, 2026 | Managing & Leading People, Mental health resources, Our Veterinary Life
What if compassion isn’t the problem, but part of the solution in veterinary practice? If you give vets a choice for tomorrow afternoon’s consult list, which would you take? A consulting list of diarrhoea, dermatology, rechecks and vaccines on rinse and repeat?...
Nov 5, 2015 | Mental health resources
Compassion Fatigue has been described as the “cost of caring” for others in emotional and physical pain. – (Figley, 1982). Compassion fatigue can be described as emotional or spiritual exhaustion that takes over an individual. It is a state of tension and...
Oct 2, 2014 | Our Veterinary Life
Whenever I hear of anyone committing suicide my heart drops as I imagine the pain their family must be going through, but I don’t know their story or the struggles they were experiencing and so it seems remote. Whenever I hear of someone who is well known,...
