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Violent vet
Author(s) -
Fordyce Peter
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.211
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2042-7689
pISSN - 0263-841X
DOI - 10.1136/inp.d297
Subject(s) - witness , nobody , fist , medicine , nursing , psychology , law , political science , computer security , anatomy , computer science
One of the senior partners of your practice is examining a dog that has had a lumpectomy, which has became infected. The dog has been sedated and is drowsy, but on palpation of the wound it tries to bite the vet. The partner shouts at the dog and hits the cowering animal with his fist, close to the operation site. The nurses, assistants and two young people on work experience look on in horror, but nobody dares to say or do anything. The dog's lead is then handed over to a nurse to shut the animal in a kennel and the partner walks out. How should a witness to such an incident proceed?