Could our profession's growing emphasis on empathy be contributing to defensive medicine, compromised clinical judgement, and veterinary burnout?
|Articles|December 7, 2018
The good tidings of happy accidents
A moment of embarrassment in a veterinary exam room turns to merriment.
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(Illustration by Roxy Townsend)This moment in the exam room is brought to you by one of our dvm360 team who took her dog to check out why it was experiencing diarrhea. Her humiliation when her dog had a messy accident right then and there evaporated because the vet was stoked to get such a fresh sample. A note from all of us at dvm360, Vetted and Fetch-we love you! Your enthusiasm for animal care keeps us focused on giving you a leg up when we can, apparently just like our pets.
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