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How professional or collegial is the veterinary profession in New Zealand ?
We pick up today where Dr Paul Unsworth gets on his self-professed soapbox about the requirement for veterinarians to work after hours. He parallels the after hours requirements and expectations of veterinary medicine versus human medicine.
I’m interested to hear your thoughts and ideas on this – please feel free to comment wherever you’re listening to this episode.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who wants to see the frequency of after hours roster requirements for vets changed.
And I think – this is life according to Julie – that a significant change can be made provided competitor clinics learn to play nicely and respectfully with each other after hours.
I think some clinics are virtue signalling with their intention to improve things when it comes to their teams working after hours. Why - because they don't play nice. They're not professional or collegial and I even challenge their levels of integrity.
When what happens, happens, the status quo prevails and vets continue to get burnt out.
Just to clarify – to remove any cause for doubt or confusion – according to the Cambridge Dictionary – the adjective collegial means: relating to a friendly relationship between colleagues (= people who work together)
It is also used to describe a method of working in which responsibility is shared between several people.
Again – I’m interested to hear YOUR thoughts, ideas, suggestions – so please – comment and/or email me – cos I really am interested.
Dr Paul also comes up with another possible idea to help relieve the veterinary shortage … but I’m not sure we’ve got the population to support it in Godzone Aotearoa New Zealand.
We join the conversation here with Paul hopping onto his first soap box!
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