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Wisconsin Ag Connection - 12/29/2020 The Wisconsin Veterinary Examining Board has launched the Veterinary Professional Assistance Program and Work-Life Services, a confidential program designed to help licensed veterinarians and certified veterinary technicians manage the physical and mental
challenges associated with the profession.
The VPAP is a professional assistance and wellness program for veterinarians and veterinary technicians. It offers guidance and assistance with family issues, finding child and adult care, workplace concerns, legal and financial issues, stress, health and wellness,
and other issues. Examples of wellness issues include chemical dependence, psychiatric illness, professional burnout, and compassion fatigue.
Meanwhile, the VEB assumes all costs for the program, which was launched in partnership with Humana. VPAP services are confidential and available to veterinary professionals and their household members 24 hours a
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Yes, poinsettias are toxic, but they should not be deadly. If your cat or dog eats them, they risk gastrointestinal irritation and nausea.
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Every year, warnings pop up on social media informing people that poinsettias are toxic to pets. But is it true?
Our Verify researchers reached out to Dr. Douglas Kratt, the president of the American Veterinary Medical Association and a practicing veterinarian who owns Central Animal Hospital in Onalaska, Wisconsin. I tell people to have their pets enjoy the holidays with them, he said. But be careful with all of the new things that are added to the house. Poinsettias have a very mild toxicity in the grand scheme of things, and primarily what you re going to get is an upset stomach, potentially some upset, lower intestinal tract issues as well.”
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President Trump signed the coronavirus relief and government funding bill Dec. 27.
Late into the night on Dec. 21, just before their return home for the holiday, Congress passed its version of an early Christmas present to many in America who have been affected by COVID-19.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Senate Amendment to H.R. 133, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of Fiscal Year 2021, which not only offered up $900 billion in COVID-19 relief to Americans, but also appropriated $1.4 trillion for fiscal year 2021. Rep. Frank Lucas, R-OK, said in a statement, âThe package passed today provides Paycheck Protection Program loans helping the hardest hit businesses, delivers additional federal unemployment aid, and gives individuals and families ore direct stimulusâall a bridge through the next few months until mass immunization occurs.