CW: suicide
The first #MentalHealth for #veterinarymedicine seminar at the Vetmeduni in Vienna. Vets die by suicide more frequently than any other profession ☹️ ALL of us know someone who made this tragic decision and all of us have personally experienced the pressure and emotional blackmail that veterinarians are exposed to on a daily basis #VetsarePeopletoo #NOMV #NotOneMoreVet
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Not One More Vet (NOMV) will transform the status of mental wellness within the profession so veterinary professionals can survive & thrive.

Not One More Vet

@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

I Never Understood Why Veterinarians Are at Such High Risk of Suicide. Until I Became One.

The story of Lacey, and why I had to kill her.

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Veterinarians raise censorship concerns after several AVMA member veterinarians were barred from attending the @[email protected] Humane Endings Symposium this weekend in Chicago. Read the story here. http://eepurl.com/ijuouH @[email protected] #vettwitter #nomv #vetmed #animalwelfare
Vet Record: ‘The veterinary profession should not condone killing animals by heatstroke’

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

@batcat +1 to talking about mental health in vet med! Thank you for raising that. It's gotten so much harder for veterinarians since I left practice ages ago.

If there are DVMs on Mastodon (or anywhere you can find me) struggling and thinking about switching to a non-traditional veterinary career, message me! I will always make time for my tribe.

#VetMed #NOMV #WhoTakesCareOfTheCaregivers

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

the NOCTURNISTS - Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest

the NOCTURNISTS - Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest

#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