By Dr Mary Fraser As vets and veterinary nurses we’re taught how to work with animals and clients. However, when working in practice I noticed that some colleagues found it awkward talking to owners of guide dogs or hearing dogs as they didn’t know what was expected of them, and were worried about offending someone by […]
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The women in leadership discourse
By Elizabeth Chan It is fantastic to have this opportunity to talk about the research I have been involved in (Career aspiration in UK veterinary students: the influences of gender, self-esteem and year of study), although I feel the need to start with a disclaimer: until Sabrina Castro approached me to ask her to supervise […]
Immaculate contraception
By Marie Kubiak Meerkats are a charismatic and popular exhibit in zoo collections and they are typically maintained in their natural family groups. One dominant pair in each group is responsible for breeding and can produce up to four litters of one to six pups a year. As such, successful breeding can quickly result in overpopulation […]
What is interprofessional working and how does it affect your working veterinary life?
By Tierney Kinnison Veterinary Record has recently published a number of papers that can give the detail; here I draw the strands together. Two papers (the practice effect and the personal effect) used Social Network Analysis (SNA) to map interactions between veterinary practice team members and to identify trends across practices in England. This formed the starting point […]
We need to talk about error
By Catherine Oxtoby A paper that has recently appeared in Veterinary Record exploring the causes and types of error in veterinary practice is the first phase of a three year PhD into mistakes in veterinary practice – a hugely neglected area of research in our profession. It wasn’t until I started researching the background to […]
Lumbar pain presenting as praying position-like posture in a dog and a cat
An article recently published in Veterinary Record Case Reports describes the case of a 10-year-old, male, intact Border collie presented with a 12-month history of progressive paraparesis and lumbar discomfort and a 5-year-old male neutered, domestic short-hair cat presented with a one-week rapid progressive history of unusual stance and gait. Both pets adopted a […]
Thorn free
In a recent case report, Marthinus Jacobus Hartman and colleagues report the successful laparoscopic removal of a thorn granuloma from the abdomen of a wild captive cheetah. An 11-year-old cheetah was presented for routine laparoscopic ovariectomy during a cheetah sterilisation project in Namibia. While under anaesthesia, a mid-abdominal mass was palpated and visualised […]
Nominations sought for Veterinary Record Innovation Award
Veterinary Record is launching a new award to recognise innovation in the veterinary sphere. The Veterinary Record Innovation Award is open to individuals and veterinary teams whose innovation has brought about a change or improvement in any aspect of veterinary practice. This change might relate to a particular aspect of clinical practice or have had […]
2014 – a year of One Health
In 2014, Veterinary Record published a series of articles exploring the links between animal, human and environmental health. While the fundamental idea behind One Health is by no means new, as outlined in an article by Abigail Woods and Michael Bresalier in June, it is beginning to be taken more seriously in the veterinary […]
Feeling hen pecked? You need a management plan
Injurious pecking (IP) is a ubiquitous problem on loose-housed laying hen farms and is a welfare and economic concern, associated with increased mortality and decreased productivity. The term ‘injurious pecking’ encompasses a range of behaviours including gentle and severe feather pecking cannibalistic pecking and vent pecking. Beak trimming is commonly used in commercial systems […]