Corporate veterinary practice is a common villain of choice for veterinary professionals... especially those who have had a bad experience working for a corporation.

The commiseration around bad corporate experiences is wide-spread, often showing up as attacks on the organizations themselves, and the veterinary professionals who elect to work there.

But why?

Is corporate veterinary medicine a true threat to our profession, or is it just a fabricated "flavor of the day" foe we use to absolve ourselves from responsibility over our own wellbeing?

Veterinary professionals have a long history of "us versus them" mentality. It shows up with our clients, among our colleagues, between private hospitals, and now includes corporate entities as well.

But why?

It's because we work in a high pressure career as a group of highly compassionate people, and when we recognized we are unhappy, stressed out and full of anxiety we look for something to blame simply because we have not been taught that the external circumstances are not responsible for our emotional experience of them.

Our world teaches us from a very early age that experiencing negative emotion means something is going wrong so something must be fixed before we can feel better.

Neuroscientifically speaking, that's not accurate or true. 

What's worse, staying in this perspective gives all of our power away. It eliminates the ability to choose differently for ourselves. It fosters hopelessness and despair. It provides no path to happiness or peace.

What is true is that the practice of veterinary medicine is ever-evolving, as is the market of veterinary business and the personal needs and desires of veterinary professionals. 

What is also true is we always get to decide. We don't need someone or something to be wrong in order to make the right decisions for ourselves.

In this episode I share about the Corporate Divide and explain why it more important than ever to create our individual emotional wellbeing and thrive in our lives and careers.







Music Credit: Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

Music Credit: Music by Lesfm from Pixabay