layout: true background-image: url(../../images/slide_background.jpg) background-size: cover class: middle --- # Knowing it's not just you ### Medium Quotes --- ### “… it’s always difficult when you have a client who doesn’t, where there’s not much chat there, or when you have a client that initially you get off on a bad foot with, you know. I’ve had that, everyone has had that in their career.” --- ### “The difficulty is you have all these young vets that feel pressure to be fantastic, straight off the bat. And they’re under pressure to be fantastic straight off the bat from clients, from colleagues to a certain extent as well. They probably just don’t know how normal what they feel is. And actually, if you could show people how normal these things are, that would make a massive difference.” --- ### “… I would love to get involved in speaking to younger members of the profession and vet students as well… whether it’s on a podcast or talks etc. I think it’s really important that they see it’s normal to make mistakes and there are other options available.” --- ### “We wouldn’t take our assistant out by the arm and humiliate them, we’d discuss where we could have done something different or what they should do the next time. But we try to get them out there pretty quickly again, so it doesn’t fester. Get them to go out to something fairly simple, and get them well primed beforehand. So they’re going well armed to gain that person’s confidence again. Everybody makes mistakes but it’s how you handle them.” --- ### “… we have a group of girls of similar age and they go to each other’s houses, cook a meal and probably talk about how terrible the bosses are. There is some mixing with other practices. So I would say, little workshop things like that … we encourage and pay for evening CPD. So that they get to talk to other people who are exactly the same, who totally understand.” --- ### “… it’s having the feeling that you have got a way out, a back-up. If you’re a large animal vet it could be the only thing you’ve done in your 6 or 7 hours driving alone between calls, the pager keeps going. There’s only so much adrenaline that can keep that going and you feel completely trapped in that scenario. There’s a stigma that you’re the on-call vet, even though you probably could phone someone to say that I’m struggling, I’m exhausted.”