Never work with animals : the unfiltered truth about life as a vet /
by Steel, Gareth.
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BookPublisher: London : HarperElement, 2022Description: ix, 324 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780008466589 (hbk.) :; 0008466580 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 636.089 STESubject(s): Steel, Gareth | Veterinarians -- Great Britain | Farming and Country Life | Farming and Country Life | Biography & non-fiction prose | Autobiography: science, technology & medicine | Animals & society | Veterinary medicine | Nature & the natural world: general interestSummary: Gareth Steel wants you to understand vets in a way you never could have before: How it feels to watch a healed dog bound into their owner's arms. The joy of breathing life into the fluid-filled lungs of a newborn calf after a difficult labour. The satisfaction of rescuing a distressed sheep from the high-tide line. What it's like to work 100-hour weeks for less than the minimum wage. How it can scar your soul to euthanize a beloved puppy with its grieving family beside you. The pressure of having to know such a diverse range of medicine, that one hour you can be protecting yourself from a dangerously distressed horse and the next you can be performing delicate surgery on a tiny mouse. How all these pressures have built up to the extent that vets have four times the national suicide rate, and why.
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| 636.089 HER Vet in a spin | 636.089 NOR A Yorkshire vet through the seasons / | 636.089 NOR All creatures : heartwarming tales from a Yorkshire vet / | 636.089 STE Never work with animals : the unfiltered truth about life as a vet / | 636.089 WRI The tales and tails of a Yorkshire vet : all in a day's work / | 636.1 DRA The ultimate book of the horse and rider / | 636.1 ROO Choosing and looking after your horse / |
Gareth Steel wants you to understand vets in a way you never could have before: How it feels to watch a healed dog bound into their owner's arms. The joy of breathing life into the fluid-filled lungs of a newborn calf after a difficult labour. The satisfaction of rescuing a distressed sheep from the high-tide line. What it's like to work 100-hour weeks for less than the minimum wage. How it can scar your soul to euthanize a beloved puppy with its grieving family beside you. The pressure of having to know such a diverse range of medicine, that one hour you can be protecting yourself from a dangerously distressed horse and the next you can be performing delicate surgery on a tiny mouse. How all these pressures have built up to the extent that vets have four times the national suicide rate, and why.
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