Veterinary Voices
Veterinary Voices celebrates all that's great about working in the veterinary industry in New Zealand.
Each week Julie South (of VetStaff - New Zealand's only recruitment agency specialising in helping veterinary professionals find jobs they're excited about going to on Monday mornings) catches up with industry professionals who join her in celebrating life as a veterinary professional in New Zealand.
Get ready to hear how "veterinary" is a great career choice and how New Zealand is a great place to live and work as a veterinary professional.
Together with her guests, Julie South is on a mission to celebrate positive, dynamic and healthy workplaces where everyone loves going to work on Monday mornings.
Veterinary Voices
Veterinarian Dr Helen Beattie - Conflict, Tension and Veterinary Moral Distress - part 2 of 3
Veterinarian Dr Helen Beattie on:
- Conflict, Tension & Moral Distress
- Books Helen's reading and recommends
- Inspiration & aspirational parenting
- + a bit of philosophical discussion
Part 2 of a multi-part series getting to know Dr Helen Beattie before she became known to New Zealand's veterinarians in her role as Chief Veterinary Officer at the New Zealand Veterinary Association.
Part 1 - episode 069 - some career highs and lows
Books Dr Helen Beattie is reading or has just finished reading:
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52741293-shuggie-bain
Roar - How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life by Dr Stacy Sims
https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/roar-9781623366865
Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given: https://www.whitcoulls.co.nz/product/women-dont-owe-you-pretty-6548712
Top level topics Helen talks about:
- Some of “team” & “people” highlights vs things she’s achieved.
- The privilege of having “thinking time” that you don’t get in clinical practice.
- The opportunity to be exposed to amazing minds and people that vets in clinic don’t get.
- What would “Old Helen” say to “Young Helen” – I asked Helen what tips she’d give to herself today as a freshly graduated vet.
- Her personal principles
- Tension and conflict
- Communication
- Human behaviour change
- Bipolar language
- The power of language
- Helen talks about how cycling gives her thinking space and time: her clearinghouse
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