The Heroes of Research

My compassion fatigue work spans 3 different aspects of animal workers: veterinary medicine, animal welfare/advocacy and lab animal research.

I'm so proud of the work they all do each and every day to help animals and people. But today's episode is in honor of my beloved research community. For those involved, the use of animals in research is not benign. It weighs heavy on their hearts, they experience compassion fatigue at high rates and often feel unable to talk about it to others for fear of judgement and misunderstanding.

This episode is equally for them as it is for anyone, as we've all benefitted from their work in advancing science, finding cures and creating innovation in medicine and technology.

At the time of this recording we are currently still in a pandemic, but the first shipments of vaccines were shipped this week!

You can thank these heroes for the work they do that will eventually allow us to be able to hug each other again.

I couldn't be more proud of them.