While in New York last weekend (I know, the stories from my trips never seem to end, right?) all the vets involved in the K-9 Down course got together for a friendly vegan dinner in Midtown Manhattan (funny…none of us are vegans).

At dinner, I was lucky enough to find myself seated near a decidedly extroverted fellow blogging veterinarian by the name of Dr. David Bessler. Like me, he’s a GP....

You’d never know it by looking at us, but veterinarians are four times more likely to commit suicide than the average person—that’s according to a study conducted last year in the UK and reported on in DVM Newsmagazine this month..

British researchers were stumped when they reached this conclusion and are currently undertaking a new study to determine what factors might be at play in such dire...