TY - JOUR
AU - Mitchell, C.
AB -  Accumulating evidence that some veterinary practices are not providing a full-time service is causing serious disquiet. In this context, full-time means twenty-four hours a day, weekends included. Naturally, it is not expected that the single-handed practitioner must be available without rest or leisure; but it is incumbent on him or her to make certain that professional help is available, whenever it is needed, by proper arrangement with neighbouring practices. It is not enough to offload responsibilities by providing-perhaps by means of a telephone answering device-the address of the nearest large, fully-manned set-up. By the very nature of our work we are not, and can never be, a nine to five profession. Over a long period of time veterinary surgeons have complained, with justice, of those welfare societies which open and close their doors only at stated hours, and those decidedly not the ‘unsocial’ ones. Any present tendency for some of our own members to indulge in the very fault we condemn in others must be firmly checked, if the worst comes to the worst by disciplinary measures. The Royal College’s Guide to Professional Conduct is unequivocal ‘. . . every Veterinarian, whether in a private or a salaried 
TI - NO OFFICE HOURS FOR US
JF - Journal of Small Animal Practice
DO - 10.1111/j.1748-5827.1981.tb00635.x
DA - 1981-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/no-office-hours-for-us-Be6H9nOxRA
SP - 489
VL - 22
IS - 8
DP - DeepDyve
ER -