Dr Ferox's life as a veterinarian

“The food’s got all them nutriems in it.”

- From a client.

If you arhave moved into a new house and need to connect the internet and a landline phone, beware. If you encounter any troubles the company will tell you to refer to their website f help (which you cannot access due to no internet) or to call their 13 number and sit on hold for 20 minutes (which is a bad move because you have no landline, only a mobile phone)

Also, my usb appears to be not formatted for any other computer in this state, preventing me from uploading posts at net cafes and so on.

As such, posting has been disrupted more than I’d like. Hopefully the internet guy will fix these problems soon.

The first day of work as a new vet is always nerve wracking for everyone. You don’t want anything to go wrong. You don’t want to look stupid or foolish or totally lost, and you definitely don’t want any clients to realise that they’re your first client (and patient) as a brand new vet.

In my case you’re also trying to learn a dos program (It’s 10 years old!) and find your way around a rather disorganized place with no real duty other than ‘do the vet stuff’.

As a new graduate vet you are a little limited in what you can do, because you’re not as experienced and you do take more time to work through things. So while I couldn’t spay one of a dozen rabbits, or join the semi-specialist surgeon, I did get a chance to do basic sorts of things, get to know the clinic and staff and meet some of the locals.

The first day was pretty good I felt a little stressed at the end, but pretty good. It was the second day that was the hard one. [Read more →]