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When the future is now
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.m4365
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , telemedicine , political science , medicine , public relations , virology , law , health care , pathology , disease , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Overnight, the Covid‐19 pandemic brought a need to use technology with which vets might not previously have grappled – most notably telemedicine. Here Daniella Dos Santos , president of the BVA throughout the first national lockdown, reflects on leading the profession through a sudden acceleration towards the future and questions what might come next.