Brandon Stapleton, DVM, explains how fresh food differs from raw diets and how digestibility, hydration, and portioned meals can support weight management and hard-to-feed patients in this episode of The Vet Blast Podcast
|Podcasts|June 7, 2022
How to solve veterinary burnout by measuring work-life balance
Learn how one healthcare system is tackling veterinary burnout with data
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On this episode of The Vet Blast Podcast, Galaxy Vets CEO Ivan Zak, DVM, MBA, shares how his organization prioritizes the mental health and wellbeing of its clinicians.
Below is a partial transcript. Listen to the full podcast for more.
Ivan Zak, DVM, MBA: How do you measure that you're improving veterinarians wellbeing? Is there a metric that you're looking at on a weekly basis with your leadership team and saying our metric work-life balance went down? How do you measure it? What is it? And how do you influence when it's out of range? So Galaxy Vets is the organization that has that at its core.
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