With medical general practitioners soon being able to buy themselves out of the requirement to provide overnight cover for their patients, for how much longer will the veterinary profession be able to sustain its 24-hour commitment? Here, Professor Bob Michell argues that it is time for the profession to rethink how it provides out-of-hours services--and, with the RCVS about to review the situation, concludes that something will have to change.
随着医学全科医生很快就能不再需要为患者提供夜间服务，兽医行业还能维持其24小时服务的承诺多久呢？在此，鲍勃·米切尔教授认为，该行业是时候重新思考如何提供非工作时间的服务了——而且，鉴于皇家兽医学院即将审查这一情况，他得出结论，某些方面必须做出改变。
