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Animals tend not to lie to you. Their condition usually apeaks for itself. For example, you can tell when a wound has been there for a week or more because it will have started to heal, and when somebody tells you “It just happened this morning!”, you tend to get a bit skeptical. You also become very dubious of people who bring you an animal that has obviously been sick for a while. You have to wonder why it is sick enough to see a vet now and not one or two months previously when it started to get sick. Why have they brought you this creature after it has been wasting away for almost 3 months? Why not at the start when it had a better chance of recovery? And why are you so desperate for a diagnosis so you can take it home on a weekend or a public holiday?

We have to wonder: If you loved your pet so much that you can’t stand to leave it in hospital for another day, why didn’t you love it enough a month or two ago when it started to get sick? [Read more →]

Today’s Vet Story is brought to you by Dr Ugg, a newly graduated small animal only vet with a penchant for surgery. Don’t be shy, leave him a comment.

A Hip Replacement as seen by Dr Ugg

A month or two back while procrastinating instead of studying for final exams, I wrote a few paragraphs on surgery and how it’s not that complex. Two weeks ago I started work, and I’ve been scrubbed in on a fairly major surgery: a dog with an infected uterus and breast cancer. It’s not necessarily specialist stuff, but involved. Just gaining a neat closure was a struggle, and I’m rapidly learning about all the little things that were going on that as a student I was unaware of, such as managing incisions early on to your life easier when it comes time to close, making sure your sutures are the same as the other vets in the clinic so clients are happy and have no reason to suspect that maybe one vet had to leave midway and the second half of the surgery was done by another, and the struggles of not having fancy equipment. But I’ve left a list on the boss’s desk and new surgical  toys are starting to appear! [Read more →]

I was just offered my third interview today. It’s quite a long way away from home and I am yet to confirm a time, but it’s an interview nonetheless. I’m quite anxious to attendsince another potential job said they would make a decision by Friday.

I think I know what I’m looking for, and I’ll think I’ve made up my mind, but I seem to find there’s always something missing that I would have taken forgranted. Really simple things that I assumed owuld be standard.

It’s a bit wierd knowing other people who have applied for the same job. On one hand they’re your friends and you wish them well, but not too well because you are competing for something important. You can also catch up after your interviews and discuss the job.  It’s only fair, the interviewers are probably discussing us.