Liz Barton

May 28, 2024 | bva.co.uk | Liz Barton

Back to blog list From city life to rural practice, vet Liz Barton shares her EMS experience in Cumbria and how key positive experiences can help shape your career. As a city girl, I confess I was a little trepidatious about my first EMS placement in a mixed practice in Cumbria. Though I’d stayed on a couple of farms as part of my pre-clinical animal husbandry experience, I’d had limited experience with equine and farm clients.

Apr 12, 2024 | vetgirlontherun.com | Liz Barton |Sonja A. Olson |Justine Lee

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Oct 17, 2023 | veterinary-practice.com | Liz Barton

As the spectrum of care extends ever forwards, vets are presented with more options to improve patient outcomes, but these often come with their own challenges A willingness to adapt and contribute to advancing standards of veterinary care and a desire to improve clinical outcomes could be considered prerequisites for taking the veterinary oath – to continuously improve the health and welfare of animals under our care. As the spectrum of care extends ever forwards, following trends in human...

Jun 19, 2023 | veterinary-practice.com | Liz Barton

There’s no doubt a veterinary life can be tough at times. We all exist on a sliding scale of well-being, from good to poor. While the fluctuations on this scale vary in frequency and intensity for each of us, we all experience low times and need mechanisms to recover. But who is responsible for helping us cope with the challenges and providing and delivering the means of recovery? Is it down to us as individuals or our family, friends and colleagues?

May 26, 2023 | veterinary-practice.com | Liz Barton

You can’t fit a square peg into a round hole, and yet we’re still forcing a huge number of square pegs through holes that just don’t fit because we’re stuck with the same old rigid peg board. For years, veterinary practices have forced the workforce to bend, stretch and restructure individual lives because we need the practice hours to be covered, regardless of the discomfort this may cause.