‘Stop the divisive and toxic communications’

Abstract

Den Leonard is a veterinary surgeon and clinical director of LLM Farm Vets, in Whitchurch, Shropshire.\n\n\n\nRecently, I have met many vets, particularly younger members of the profession, working in corporate practice who are angered by the way their professional integrity is being publicly questioned by colleagues working in so-called independent practice. This is becoming a growing issue and something I wish to draw the profession’s attention to.\n\nIn some recent newsletters and public communications, there has seemingly been an orchestrated campaign to question the motivations of vets, depending on the ownership structure of the organisation they work in.\n\nTypical comments I have read include: 1 ‘I believe that clients and their animals under veterinary care will be better served where owners work within the practice…Independent ownership offers vets the freedom to provide the treatments that are the …