009 - Dr Rose Unsworth - locum stresses in clinic and in life pre- and during border closures

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This is the fourth episode in the series supporting WHY I’m launching a parliamentary petition requesting the government to designate veterinarians as critical workers to let more into NZ to help the dire shortage we have right now. 

You can sign the petition online at getvets.nz.  All online signatures ate 100% confidential.

Late last year I received a letter from a very globally experienced companion animal locum veterinarian. 

In the letter Dr Rose Unsworth shared  the overwhelming demand for her and her husband's locum services - demands greater than they can meet.

Where forty years on we still have a crisis on our hands. No individual should have a personal connection to five colleagues who have committed suicide (those are the ones I can name personally, I know of many more).

That clinics are having to turn away clients because they simply cannot cope with the number of patients walking through clinic doors.

Dr Rose Unsworth is the mother of twin daughters, four mini schnauzers, a pit bull a blue tongued lizard called Tequila, chinchilla breeding and two cats.  

She’s a veterinarian with over 40 years companion animal experience and over 25 years of passionate and dedicated involvement with the Complementary Veterinary Medicine Branch of the New Zealand Veterinary Association.

Some of Dr Rose’s life-changing experiences include volunteering at the Asha Foundation in Ahmedabad, India – which she describes as hell on steroids, working at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage and the Dog Care clinic in Sri Lanka plus the Kimberley Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation centre in Australia as well as neutering cats in Bermuda for a charity.  

In Bermuda, she had the best view anyone could ever have from an operating table:  pink sand, turquoise seas and palm trees. 

Dr Rose Unsworth believes that if you have a vet degree and a willing partner with the right attitude who shares your values and has a strong desire to give back, then the world is your oyster.

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