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Animal Welfare ConversationsClinical BiasesDecision making mini-series - episode 3 - Bias
In this episode we discuss the complexities of decision-making in veterinary medicine, focusing on biases that can impact clinical reasoning and client communication. We look at how biases can lead to misdiagnosis, affect treatment choices, influence client trust and ultimately impact on animal welfare.
We consider some of the more common biases, such as confirmation bias, anchoring bias, and availability bias, and emphasizes the importance of recognizing and mitigating these biases to improve diagnostic accuracy and patient safety.
As usual, we have more resources on this topic at V...
2025-10-0122 min
Animal Welfare Conversations2024 - Reviewing the Animal Welfare ConversationIt’s the end of the year, so we took the chance to review the podcast. I still can’t believe that we’ve being doing this for a year now and had the chance to talk to so many people, about the great work they’re doing in relation to animal welfare.
It would be great, if you get a chance to go through the back catalogue and listen to some of the older episodes, but we wanted to highlight a few different things.
Education – this has been discussed in every single episode – in relation to the veter...
2024-12-3114 min
The Animal TurnBonus: Kindred Creatures with Monica Murphy and Bill WasikMonica Murphy and Bill Wasik join Claudia on the show to talk about their recent book Our Kindred Creatures. They discuss how the late 19th century was a time of immense change for Americans and their relationships with animals became increasingly contradictory. Date Recorded: 15 July 2024 Bill Wasik is the editorial director of The New York Times Magazine. Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer. Their previous book, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus, was a Los Angeles Times...
2024-10-281h 17
The Animal TurnBonus: Veterinary Ethics and Animal Welfare with Sean WensleyUsing his book Through a Vet’s Eyes as a backdrop, Claudia talks to Sean Wensley about veterinary ethics and animal welfare. They discuss some of Sean’s experiences as a vet as well as some of the challenges vets face in representing animals’ interests. Date Recorded: 20 February 2024 Sean Wensley is Senior Veterinarian for Animal Welfare and Professional Engagement at the UK veterinary charity, the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA). He was President of the British Veterinary Association (BVA) and chaired the Animal Welfare Working Group of t...
2024-08-121h 17
Animal Welfare ConversationsEpisode 8 - Animal welfare and the CMA reportIn this episode we take a break from interviews, and Mary considers the impact of the CMA report on animal welfare.
Recent years have seen many changes in veterinary practice, and in particular the corporatisation of the industry. Whilst there are still independent practices out there, many of the UK's veterinary practices are owned by small number of large corporates. In this situation vets and veterinary nurses are employees of a larger company, and are not responsible for pricing decisions.
The Competitions and Markets Authority recently examined the provision of veterinary services, and has decided to...
2024-04-0115 min
Animal Welfare ConversationsEpisode 3 - Dr Sean Wensley - Animal Welfare ScienceIn this edition of Animal Welfare Conversations, I’m delighted to chat to Dr Sean Wensley. We discuss a diverse range of topics starting with what animal welfare means to Sean – that takes us into a fascinating conversation about the physical and mental wellbeing of animals, alongside animal welfare science, ethics and law. We delve into the complexities of each of these, how we can understand what an animal needs and wants and how to assess welfare.
We discuss Sean’s book Through a Vet’s Eyes – How to Care for Animals and Treat Them Better a book which...
2024-01-261h 03
The Goldster Conversations PodcastSean Wensley and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastOur lives are intrinsically linked to those of animals – whether that’s the animals we farm for food, those living in the wild, those we use for sport or the ones we choose to keep as pets. We all have a responsibility to consider our impact, and even small changes in our own lives could significantly improve the quality of theirs.
Dr Sean Wensley is an award-winning vet, lifelong naturalist and a former President of the British Veterinary Association, advocating animal wellbeing around the world. Fusing keen scientific insight with tender meditations on the natural world, his new book...
2023-08-211h 01
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2023-07-1002 min
Web PerspectivesLayoffs and AI-Powered Job Searching with Stephen WensleyWhat's causing all the layoffs in the tech industry? How can we use AI and ChatGPT to supercharge our resumes and cater them to job postings? How important are job postings anyway? Stephen Wensley, from Acuspire shares with us his insights from parsing 1000s of resumes using AI on what you can do right now to simplify your job search.
ChatGPT and how it has taken off
What AI means for web developers. Will we lose our jobs to ChatGPT and AI?
How important is catering your resume to a job description as opposed to networking in-person? What...
2023-02-281h 46
The Underdog Vet PodcastS2: E2 - Dr Sean Wensley FRCVSWelcome to this episode of The Underdog Vet Podcast!
In this episode's Animal Advocate Interview, I spoke to veterinary surgeon and author Dr Sean Wensley.
Sean is a Senior Veterinary Surgeon at the veterinary charity, the PDSA and a recent President of the British Veterinary Association here in the UK. He also chairs the Animal Welfare Working Group of the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe, which represents veterinary organisations from 40 European countries.
Sean has contributed to animal welfare and conservation projects around the world and in 2017 received the inaugural World Veterinary Association (WVA...
2023-02-2450 min
Jo Durrant's Beautiful UniverseEp 111 Dr Sean WensleyIn episode 111 Jo's special guest is Dr Sean Wensley, a senior vet and author of 'Through A Vet's Eyes: How We Can All Choose a Better Life for Animals'. Sean talks about his career, research, animal welfare and his love of nature. Plus he answers Jo's Quick Six. Jo also visits the Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL in London to find out the story of the Thylacine, otherwise known as a Tasmanian tiger, which went extinct in the 1930s. Presented, produced & edited by Jo Durrant. Music licensed from Pu...
2022-11-301h 17
A Dog's Life with Anna WebbDr Sean WensleyThis week Anna is joined by PDSA Vet Sean Wensley chatting about his book Through A Vet’s Eyes. As a candid exploration of how we live with animals in the modern world, Sean explains why we mustn’t lose touch with nature and all animals in the natural world. They offer stark contrast to our farm animals and pets being kept in captivity. We discuss the importance to understand the Five Domains: Nutrition, Behaviour, Physical health, the Environment, and the Mental Health of all animals. In the wild animals these domains are provided naturally through survival, but Sean argue...
2022-11-2738 min
Mountain ConversationsThrough a Vet's Eyes with Dr Sean WensleyIn this episode, Dr Sean Wensley joins Charlie to discuss his new book, 'Through a Vet's Eyes', which explores how we should treat animals to ensure the five freedoms of animal welfare are met and those species which are so familiar to us are treated with the dignity, respect and love that all animals deserve.To purchase the book and learn more, head to:https://www.octopusbooks.co.uk/titles/dr-sean-wensley/through-a-vet%e2%80%99s-eyes/9781856754743/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-10-2955 min
The Purpose Over Profit Podcast56 - Through the Vet's EyesIn this interesting episode, we will look into different approaches on how we can choose a better life for animals, from the chickens we eat to the pets we keep.Joining us is Dr. Sean Wensley who has contributed to animal welfare and conservation projects all over the world. Dr. Sean Wensley is an award-winning Senior Veterinary Surgeon and the Author of Financial Times' Best Summer Books of 2022 "Through A Vet's Eyes"We will also dig deeper in the stories in Dr. Wensley's book and get first-hand tips on how to treat animals be...
2022-10-211h 01
VETchat by The Webinar VetHow Can We Reduce Our Animal Welfare Footprint? - Sean Wensley | VETchat by The Webinar VetJoining Anthony for today's episode of VETchat is Sean Wensley, Senior Vet at the UK veterinary charity the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) and Author of the book 'Through A Vet's Eyes: How We Can All Choose a Better Life for Animals'.
In this episode, Anthony and Sean talk about the great new release 'Through A Vet's Eyes: How We Can All Choose a Better Life for Animals', a book where Sean shares his first-hand experience of how animals are treated and used for our benefit. He interrogates the different levels of welfare afforded to th...
2022-09-2332 min
Veterinary RamblingsEp 74: Discussing Animal Welfare With Dr Sean WensleyThis week Veterinary Ramblings is joined by Dr Sean Wensley, author of Through A Vet's Eyes: How we can all choose a better life for animals!Sean Wensley is a Senior Vet at the UK veterinary charity, the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA). He chairs the Animal Welfare Working Group of the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe and was President of the British Veterinary Association from 2015 – 2016. He has contributed to animal welfare and conservation projects around the world and is a Director of Vet Sustain. In 2017 Sean received the inaugural World Veterinary Association (WVA...
2022-06-231h 02
Start A Edge-Of-Your-Seat Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Through a Vet’s Eyes by Dr Sean Wensley FRCVS, Miranda Krestovnikoff - forewordPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/236666to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Through a Vet’s Eyes
Author: Dr Sean Wensley FRCVS, Miranda Krestovnikoff - foreword
Narrator: Paul Thornley
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
Release date: 04-28-22
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: Ecology
Publisher's Summary:
Dr Sean Wensley is an award-winning vet and lifelong naturalist, advocating animal wellbeing around the world. Fusing keen scientific insight with tender meditations on the natural world, Through a Vet's Eyes reveals the injustices which animals experience every day and raises an important question: how can we choose a better life for animals?
2022-04-2810h 25
Vet Times PodcastEp 67: Choosing a better life for animals, with Sean WensleyIn this episode, we are joined once again by Sean Wensley ahead of the release of his debut book.
Titled Through a Vet’s Eyes: How We Can All Choose a Better Life for Animals, the book explores our relationship with animals; how we treat them, how we get it wrong and what we can do to fix it.
Ahead of its release on 28 April, we have invited Sean back to the Vet Times Podcast to give us a synopsis of the book and discuss the impact he hopes it will have on our animal welfare footprint.
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Sean is senior veterinary surgeon (communication and education) at PDSA. He chairs the...
2022-04-1532 min
Vet Times PodcastVet Times Extra: Sean Wensley talks 5 years of the BVA's animal welfare strategyBVA Congress, which takes place at the London Vet Show (11 to 12 November 2021), will mark five years of the association’s efforts to create a better world for animals through its animal welfare strategy.
Sean Wensley was BVA president when the first strategy was launched in 2016 – and ahead of his lecture at congress, he joined a special episode of the Vet Times Podcast to discuss its success and consider how it may develop further over the next five years.
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Sean is senior veterinary surgeon (communication and education) at PDSA. He chairs the Animal Welfare Working Group of the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE), was president of the BVA from 2015-16 and is a Fellow of...
2021-11-1013 min
VETchat by The Webinar VetSean Wensley - The Joys Of The Natural WorldJoining Anthony for today's episode of our sustainability series at VetChat is Sean Wensley, Chair of Animal Welfare Working Group, Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE) and senior vet at PDSA. They talk about the joys of local wildlife and the natural world, Sean's involvement in the banning of wild bird trade and some global sustainability challenges.
Check out the WVA Virtual Seminar on Food Security here.
2021-08-1330 min
Podcast: feeding the birds can help the nations armchair naturalists beat coronavirus isolation – FFON. The Frightened Face of Nature.Podcast episode 6 – Bees, bugs, ponds and water-bowls.Simon, John and Margaret’s theme for today’s podcast is “Bees, bugs, ponds and water-bowls.” The FFON (www.ffon.co.uk) team discuss Sean Wensley’s timely blog “Growing close to nature during lockdown” and one specific quote, which caught the attention of a number of people on twitter: “I join, passionately and emphatically, all those who want our post-Covid […]
2020-06-2200 min
Vet Times PodcastEp 2: Sean Wensley on PAW reportLaunched in 2011, the PDSA Animal Wellbeing (PAW) Report has been instrumental as an annual barometer of animal welfare issues in the UK.
The 2019 report is just out, and Sean Wensley, PDSA senior vet surgeon for communication and education, talks about its past achievements and future plans.
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Produced annually in conjunction with research agency YouGov, the PAW Report is recognised as a rigorous and in-depth assessment of the well-being of the UK’s pets.
The Animal Welfare Act 2006 – referred to in the podcast – places a legal duty of care on the owners and keepers of animals to provide for their welfare needs. Th...
2019-09-1310 min
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