Blog Posts
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Let’s Do Our Part to Prevent Suicide Among Veterinary Professionals
It’s rare that a week goes by when I don’t receive a Google alert telling me that another article has been published mentioning the staggering stats of suicide among veterinary…
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Five Things We Now Know About the Mental Health of Veterinarians
Several years ago, I wrote a blog “Five things you didn’t know about the mental health of veterinarians”. It was published at a time when news about suicide among veterinary…
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Why we need to be careful how we talk about suicides among veterinary professionals
Hardly a week goes by when I don’t receive a Google alert or see some glaring headline about suicides in the veterinary profession. Even Time Magazine has weighed in on…
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Three things that you can do to help reduce the rate of suicide among veterinary professionals
A serious stigma regarding mental health exists in the veterinary profession and it’s time for it to stop. Much of the discussion regarding mental health in the veterinary profession recently…
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Female veterinarians are dying by suicide at alarmingly high rates
Whenever I meet someone new and they inevitably ask what I do, when I explain that I am a promoter of veterinary wellbeing, they look at me with confusion and…
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Do male veterinarians have better mental health compared to female veterinarians?
I was a bit taken aback a few weeks ago when I received a comment on one of my blogs accusing me of “discriminating against male veterinarians”. Having not been…
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