In your opinion, what is the most concerning issue facing veterinarian sciences, today?

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Lauren Adelman · Answer

In your opinion, what is the most concerning issue facing veterinary sciences today? Well, there's a lot. You know, mental health is a huge thing in veterinary practice, whether it's veterinary nurses, technicians, veterinarians, high suicide rates. But I think for me, one of the topics I'm most passionate about right now is just the veterinary shortage and the fact that there's a massive shortage of veterinarians, veterinary specialists and veterinary technicians, everything we are very short staffed on. And that is contributing to the mental health crisis that's affecting us. And so we definitely need more veterinarians being trained and we need more help. And I think that's only going to come if pet owners are starting to recognize this and ask for it. So that is probably the biggest issue is the shortage right now.

Ashley Bourgeois · Answer

In your opinion, what is the most concerning issue facing veterinary and sciences today? You know, I know obviously there is a lot of mental health issues that happen in veterinary medicine And you know, we're kind of reported as having some of the higher suicide rates and depression rates Compared to a lot of other Industries out there and that is super important. I think a lot of what fuels that is the You know the rising cost of things like health care and Not as much education out there as far as things as pet insurance and sometimes the hard Part for us is we're very empathetic people. We want to help everyone but just like any other business You know, we have to keep the lights on and pay our staff So I think there's a lot of intertwining with that, you know, we want access to care We want to be able to help everyone and so we need to keep finding ways to make that possible There's different foundations organizations that are amazing, but also just making things like pet insurance more known So that people don't have to be worried about finances when helping their pet We can just focus on what we need to do for that pet and help take that aspect out of it And I think for a lot of us in the field That would help with some of the difficulties that we have in our own mental state And because a lot of its derived from us wanting to help so bad, but sometimes having limitations to that.

Ori Orion Stollar · Answer

In your opinion, what is the most concerning issue facing veterinary sciences today? The problem with veterinary sciences is that the budget that we get for research is not as high as what people get, meaning that we can't do as many studies and we can't do them as comprehensive maybe as they should be, meaning that sometimes in different fields, especially in my field of behavior, we might not always be able to get the best results possible, although we definitely try.

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"In your opinion, what is the most concerning issue facing veterinarian sciences, today?"