Letter: Home births
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Marina Baker wrote: "I've met more sensitive vets than the doctors who attended me."
As well as being a trainee NCT ante-natal teacher, I am also a veterinary surgeon, and was bewildered and offended by the implication that vets are naturally less sensitive than the medical profession.
The majority of the pet-owning public treat their pets as though they were children, and a considerable amount of tact, sensitivity and diplomacy is required on the part of the veterinarian. In addition, most vets are skilled at obstetrics and gynaecology in a number of different species, perhaps giving them a distinct advantage over some GPs if ever called to deal with a parturient human female.
Mrs M H LLOYD MRCVS
Radley, Oxfordshire
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