Dawn Crandell, DVM, DVSC, DACVECC, calls for a shift in veterinary medicine. It isn’t about the medicine. It is about the way veterinary hospital teams view their patients. The shift, she says, is all about getting rid of dominance behavior.
Source: Dr. Andy Roark, December 1, 2016.
The pervasive silent influence of the dominance mindset is getting in the way of us doing our jobs, of doing the best for our patients, of being the kind and caring veterinarians our youthful selves envisioned when we submitted our application to veterinary college. Let’s be a collective voice and kick dominance to the curb. When I graduated more than two and a half decades ago, we did not know better. Now we do. Let’s all of us do better.
INSIGHTS: Your AHD team suggests this article as an interesting discussion topic for a hospital team meeting or shelter staff meeting. At least one very popular TV dog trainer focuses on alpha positioning and pack mentality that contradict this less dominant call to action.