#human welfare

[unbfacts]

Chuck Feeney, co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers, donated over $8 billion to various causes, including health science and human welfare. He spent his final years in a rented San Francisco apartment, with remaining assets of $2 million.

[mrkmciver]

#Predatory Capitalism

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural, and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings.

I think that we should use our energy, our initiative to solve our problems and stop relying on prayer and wishful thinking.

I believe that if we have faith in ourselves, we won’t have to have faith in gods.”

-- Ruth Hurmence Green

[sadhguru]

Raising consciousness

[busriwelfare]

Pakistan stands with Palestine 🇵🇰🇵🇸

Allhamdulilah successful meeting done with Palestinian ambassador Ahmad Rabaie. Our Cabinet gave suggestions on how we can help Palestinians in this difficult situation. Inshallah we will be providing medicines to ghaza and our team of doctors will give them online training on how to respond in emergency situations.

[cherish-a-bee]

Good morning, community! Putting the finishing touches on my next bee awareness infographic. It will be up and running tomorrow so stay posted~ This week's Nature for The Thought column will highlight how bees contribute to human health and the economy.

Today, I challenge you to name three ways bees help either the environment or human needs.

Share your response in the comments section, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

[drferox]

Client’s Mental Health

@theflashisgone said to @ask-drferox: I realize the legal aspects are different between countries, but what is the ethical and professional thing to do when you're concerned about a client's mental health? I have one client who seems to be having paranoid delusions, and another who's so out of it I don't think they're safe to live alone, let alone drive. As a human being who's concerned about other humans' welfare, I feel I should do something, but I'm concerned about overstepping the bounds of professionalism.

We are woefully under-qualified to deal with a mental health crisis in our clients. ‘Human’ is not our domain, and yet we do have a moral duty of care to do something when there is a crisis, if they are a danger to themselves or others.

Often this is most apparent after the euthanasia of a pet upon which the human was extremely emotionally dependent. That’s one of the trickiest parts about treating animals that people are using as Emotional Support Animals. If they show up to the euthanasia appointment alone you have to treat very delicately.

I’ve felt the need to take action over a client’s mental health in two scenarios.

One was late at night, working emergency. The client’s dog had died of chronic illnesses a few days before, and that was extremely stressful enough as their entire family was not coping reasonably and actually considering maintaining CPR on the patient while it was flown to the USA for multiple organ transplants to bring it back to life... but the client had called the emergency clinic every night since. Then expressed that their family blamed them for the dog’s death, they had nobody to talk to, and were thinking of killing themselves.

It’s a coherent threat of suicide, seemed plausible, and I had no means to check on this person myself, nor would I have felt safe doing so at their home. Not knowing what else to do, I called the closest hospital, explained the situation, and was put through to the appropriate team to check on them. Never heard about it again, and the client stopped calling.

Whether they were picked up by a CATT team or not, I performed my responsibility in alerting people who were much better equipped to deal with all of that than I was.

On the second occasion, it was for a regular client in at the general practice who’d been known to us for years. We knew something was going on in the background with mental health, wrote lots of things down for them and more or less went along with whatever accommodation was requested this month. There was a lot of trouble getting bills paid, and while I might have had my personal suspicions as to what was going on in their mental space, it’s not professional to speculate unless you are working in human mental health.

But this particular day was different. They were too paranoid to actually walk into the clinic building. They were pointing to problems on the dog which I couldn’t actually see. They were calling the dog by the wrong name, calling by a dog’s name which had died years ago.

Now it’s not my business to try to figure out what’s wrong, but they were clearly in distress and had driven to the clinic so I did not want them to drive home.

Fortunately because they were a regular client of the practice, I knew who their parents were, and called them. And once they understood what was happening, came down to assist and everything was sorted out over the next few days.

It’s never our place as veterinary professionals to diagnose a human. We can, as members of society, make an assessment that someone is having an extremely bad day or not coping with life. We’re in a privileged position in that we generally have access to that person’s address and phone numbers if they are clients. If we’re genuinely worried, we need to refer onto the professionals in the position to help them.

That might be the police if that person is an immediate threat to you. It might be a CATT team if they’re a direct threat to themselves. It might be a local doctor’s office or local council if you think they need a welfare check. Even the RSPCA can refer to human welfare organizations once they’ve assessed a situation and believe that to be a factor.

There are people in better situations to help than we are. We just need to connect them.

[intelligentchristianlady]