You aren’t broken. You aren’t alone.

https://www.nomv.org/

#vetmed #notonemorevet #NOMV #burnout #mentalhealth #veterinaryburnout

@hannu_ikonen

I get “job offers” every day. They’re all from corporate conglomerates.

Nobody wants to acknowledge the roots of the veterinary shortage.

Veterinarians are missing from the workforce because they were literally driven to suicide. The pandemic just made a preexisting crisis worse. The venture-capitalization of medicine creates victims out of doctors and patients.

If anyone contacts me trying to recruit for Mars I send them an invoice for my time.

#notonemorevet #NOMV #vetmed

Sometimes I think that to be able to stay sane and alive until today is a gift and privilege.

#veterinarian #mentalhealth #nomv

Got called money hungry by a client again today. Over a medically necessary $95 service. During a 20-minute after hours phone call.

So that was fun.

The punchline: the average salary in the client's profession is 4X a veterinarian's.

And his genetically ...umm... interesting purebred dog cost $5K+.

(Fellow vets, you can probably guess the breed.)

#VeterinaryMedicine #NOMV #veterinarian #ItsNotAllCutePuppiesAndKittens #BitterPartyOfOne

Thinking about the Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest podcast https://www.thenocturnists-shame.org/

It's been really helpful in untangling my feelings about #VeterinaryMedicine. So much of (me) being a doctor is striving for perfection or at least to be a "good doctor" by every measure, and coming up short in my own mind. And it's that perspective that harms me.

#nomv #NotOneMoreVet #veterinarian #veterinarians #medicine #MedicalHumanities #MentalHealth

#introduction

Hi. I live in Northern California and work as a small animal #veterinarian.

Bat Cat is my #cat. She is smart and affectionate and has a rather large Attitude Problem. I'm obsessed.

In my free time, I love learning more about the #history of ordinary people, especially in the US and the areas of the former Soviet Union. I'm studying Russian потихоньку.

#veterinarians #veterinarymedicine #NOMV #AmericanHistory #RussianHistory #SovietHistory #MedicalHumanities #StandWithUkraine