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Gareth Cross

All articles by Gareth Cross

28 October 2022

“If someone loves their pet or horse or highly values their farm, would they go hunting for the cheapest vets in town?”

Vet examining goat

23 September 2022

“To understand someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes”

teamwork hiking

23 August 2022

“We need to follow the evidence, but we also need to try to work out what the data is not saying, what is missing and why. We need to understand the evidence we don’t realise we have”

white brain with books and stethoscope

25 July 2022

“Part of my lower brain had been activated and I knew I had to get out of there before the red mist came down”

man holding head stressed

23 May 2022

“Of all the drawbacks to this profession of ours, one of the constants has been low pay”

money coins growing plants

25 April 2022

There is no NHS for pets – but could a localised alternative be possible?

woman talking about vet bills in front of dog and vet

25 March 2022

Have you ever heard of Jasmin Paris? Let me fill you in

24 February 2022

“This situation started me thinking about how we need to have an open practice culture in all practices, which can permit criticism”

Doctors discussion

31 January 2022

“Maybe we should make our downtime so stressful that when we come back to work, we are, relatively speaking, much more relaxed”

vet holding head stressed

31 December 2021

“No one would want an RCVS inspector interrogating a vet or nurse in their practice on their clinical competence, or watching ops and anaesthesia”

Vet doing paperwork

25 November 2021

“Most practices will likely regularly lose people for 10-day stretches this winter”

Women talking with horse

26 October 2021

“United we stand, divided we will fall”

teamwork hiking

23 September 2021

“Often the core criticism or concern with money going to animal welfare is the belief that if it wasn’t being given to animals it would go to people”

Women talking with horse

12 August 2021

“Why can we physically buy an instrument to deal with something that does not exist?”

23 July 2021

“Much of what we have to treat cannot be judged by specialists, who only see the pinnacle of unusual cases”

Vet holding dog