Boss Bitches: Maggie

So stopping for a second, because we do have listeners who are not in the veterinary vertical.

All of us three know what a relief vet is, like what that job is, why do we have it? That sort of thing.

Can you two ladies just describe to our listeners who are not in the veterinary space, like what is the purpose of a relief vet? Like, you know, cause there's a really strong need for that position in the veterinary space, depending on the size of the veterinary hospital.

Do you guys just want to cover that for a few seconds?

Yeah,

definitely.

I mean, in Canada,

the word that's used more commonly is locum.

And it is sort of recognized a bit more outside the veterinary space because we have it for nurses, we have it for physicians and dentists and pharmacists.

And it's basically a professional who steps in and fills in temporarily at a practice or in a location and And when it comes to the human physicians, we have some locums that go to communities that don't have doctors at all.

So you don't have one fixed location.

So I can't have a client who always comes to see me unless they want to travel all over the province.

And basically providing relief to either the, for me, it's the veterinarians that I'm covering for or some relief to the community that needs help.

more services and it's just it's a temporary solution to a shortage I'm sorry my cat is being really demanding right now that's okay get him off of the shelf he's on

you can you can show him oh he doesn't

like that he doesn't like that He just likes to get on

all the shelves.

Okay, fair enough.

I have, I'm at work recording this and I have three puppies with me who my practice manager Akira and Tammy are trying desperately to keep quiet in the background so that they're not being disruptive.

So it's okay from the veterinary owner space.

So like Maggie's the person who comes in to help people like me.

So I own my own vet practice.

So like if I have veterinarians who are going on vacation or if someone has a sudden schedule change from like a health issue or something like that, we utilize amazing veterinarians like Maggie to come in and help us when we are short.

So that way we can still, um, provide service for our clients and our patients in need.

So it is, I feel like it's like mostly a term, either relief or locum used in medicine, like, cause it does happen in the human world as well.