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Gareth Cross

All articles by Gareth Cross

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

“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

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

teamwork hiking

“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

“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

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

money coins growing plants

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

woman talking about vet bills in front of dog and vet

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

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

Doctors discussion

“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

“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

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

Women talking with horse

“United we stand, divided we will fall”

teamwork hiking

“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

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