What Vet Med Gets Wrong About Success | Phil Richmond on Purpose & Burnout | Irreplaceable Truths

Описание: What if burnout in vet med isn’t about weak resilience—but about how success is defined? And what happens when productivity and revenue matter more than people, culture, and psychological safety?

Join host Dr. Gershon Alaluf and special guest Dr. Phil Richmond, DVM, CAPP, CPHSA, CCFP for an insightful, inspiring episode of Irreplaceable Truths exploring veterinary leadership, workplace culture, and what sustainable vet med actually looks like.

Packed with professional wisdom, emotional insight, and lived experience, this episode offers grounded, practical lessons for veterinarians, veterinary students, and animal care professionals.

🎧 What you’ll discover:
– Why measuring productivity alone quietly undermines veterinary teams
– How leadership, culture, and systems shape burnout more than individual resilience
– Why suicide prevention training matters—but can’t fix broken or unhealthy systems
– How flexible boundaries, recognition, and humanity protect long-term careers in vet med

🐾 Who will love this episode:
– Veterinarians & veterinary students
– Animal care professionals
– Veterinary educators and mentors
– Animal lovers passionate about veterinary medicine
– Practice owners, managers, and team leads

🎬 Timestamps:
00:00 – What vet med measures vs what actually matters
07:45 – Dr. Phil Richmond on leadership, culture, and mental health in vet med
15:30 – Resilience has limits: when systems overwhelm good people
23:15 – Moral injury in veterinary medicine and ethical exhaustion
31:00 – Overwork, boundaries, and behaviors vet med keeps rewarding
38:45 – Productivity-first culture and its impact on teams and retention
46:30 – Why toxicity isn’t called out like bad medicine
54:15 – Burnout, empathy loss, and emotional labor in clinics
1:01:00 – Vulnerability, leadership accountability, and trust
1:08:30 – How early-career vets can identify psychological safety

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📚 Resources Mentioned:
– QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) Suicide Prevention Training: qprinstitute.com
– Moral injury research in healthcare: fixmoralinjury.org
– “Me, We, Us” framework (organizational psychology)

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