b'PROFILEyour clients and patients; your patientsI aim to create time and may not get better, your clients wont be happy, and your colleagues will be upset.space for teams to genuinely If you care too much, youll take ancare about their clients and emotional hit on every case and end up tired, depressed, and at risk of burningpatients, so they can take out.satisfaction from treating them. Caring in the right way requires the right attitude, but also time and mental(more recently) contextualised care are capacity. We all find it hard to care ifincreasingly recognised and praisedwe are overworked, unappreciated,and rightly so. tired, or stressed by practice politics.What is still missing is the recognition Both in my practice and in Kin Veterinarythat, when done right, it is also an Community, I aim to create time andacademically complex and challenging space for teams to genuinely care aboutfield that covers areas not currently their clients and patients, so they canserved by any specialty discipline, and take satisfaction from treating them. which is hugely underserved both in What do you feel would most benefitterms of teaching and research to job satisfaction in the veterinaryadvance it. professions, and how could we workDont just tell GP vets that they are towards implementing this?amazing humans (though they are!). General practice is increasinglyRecognise that general practice is an recognised in our profession as theacademic discipline in its own right, amazing, complex, challenging workingand in every sphere, from teaching environment that it is. Veterinary GPsto research to regulation, it deserves skills in communication, empathy, anddeliberate consideration. www.inspiredvet.co.uk17'