Panorma - It Shouldn't Happen at a Vets

[va1o]

Anyone watching this? Its on BBC1 now. Pretty shocking behaviour really.

[adycav]

It's only just started! Nothing's happened yet!

[crmcatee]

Apart from Vine's jacket.

[Jasandjules]

The name of the show makes me think I don't want to watch it.....

[Shaw Tarse]

Doesn't look good, but I do wonder how biased the editing is?

[cslgirl]

It's really quite upsetting to watch.

[fido]

Shaw Tarse said:

Doesn't look good, but I do wonder how biased the editing is?

That's the problem with Panorama .. i've seen them try to smear industries/profession which i do understand and know about .. however, as the programme was commented on by professionals in the industry, it does have some credence. And that vet bloke was well dodgy.

[4sure]

sorry but no surprises really.

Theres a lot more things more worrying to me.

[becksW]

Yay great now everyone will think we are all the same, only thing I'd say is this was from several months of working there, not condoning what was shown but small amount of material for the amount of time she was there. The intubation scene was unfair, cats can be very difficult to tube even for a very experienced vet.

One of the reasons why I'd not work in a chain practice is too much staff turnover and too much risk of guidelines being misinterpreted.

Edited by becksW on Thursday 22 July 23:56

[Meoricin]

fido said:

Shaw Tarse said:

Doesn't look good, but I do wonder how biased the editing is?

That's the problem with Panorama .. i've seen them try to smear industries/profession which i do understand and know about .. however, as the programme was commented on by professionals in the industry, it does have some credence. And that vet bloke was well dodgy.

They always have professionals in the industry to comment - the amount of negative things they found for the hour long show seemed to show Medivet in almost a good light. There were only a couple of real issues, and any business/profession has issues and individuals like those. Personally I think it came off looking more like Panorama decided on which industry to sensationalise next, and then struggled to do so properly.

[fido]

Meoricin said:

They always have professionals in the industry to comment

Not on the TWO bash-the-bank episodes - aside from Angela Knight from the BBA who gets wheeled out almost in a token fashion - it's normally some left-of-centre academics. The last one about "why savings rates are so low - it's the banks fault?" skirted around the main issue i.e. the BoE rate is half-a-f8cking percent!

[raf_gti]

How are the BBC allowed to get away with a programme like that?

Did they pick Medivet at random and go 'after them' or was it based on a tip-off by a member of staff.

I got the feeling there was an ulterior motive to picking Medivet, yet unfortunately for the BBC they couldn't find anything of real scandal to really shock the viewer.