What are your shared values?

‘DON’T make the mistake of thinking all vets care about animal welfare,’ a vet told me last week. ‘Half the vets I trained with were hunters and if you asked them why they wanted to become vets, they would say they were interested in the technical aspects of work, or the presumed status, but not especially the animals.’ I was a bit taken aback. Up until now, I had rather taken it as read that vets care about animals and their welfare. Why else would you invest five years of your life studying to manage their health needs? Perhaps that is naive. It is probably misguided to think everyone in a single professional group shares the same world view or adheres to any particular value consistently. While members may share unifying experiences and obligations (education, a code of practice, an oath, for example), people are complex, their value systems...
Source: Veterinary Record - Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Tags: Comment Source Type: research