According to survey results, veterinarians report widespread ethical conflict and moral distress across many practice types and demographics. Most veterinarians have little to no training on how to decrease the impact of these problems.
Source: Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, August 6, 2018. Link.
Ethical conflict and resulting moral distress may be an important source of stress and poor well-being that is not widely recognized or well defined.
INSIGHTS: The more we anthropomorphize animals we increase the conundrums represented in this survey.
Conundrum : 1-a: an intricate and difficult problem, -b: a question or problem having only a conjectural answer