When I was in elementary school, I was already an overachiever. I had been planning my career as a veterinarian since I was six years old. Somehow, my mother convinced me that my vet school application would contain a section where my grades for grades four through twelve were scrutinized heavily and could make the… Read More
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Do You Care Too Much What Others Think?
Let me ask you a hypothetical question: When you think about your job, would you rather be the best person in your city at what you do and have everyone think you are the worst, or be the worst and have everyone think you’re the best? It’s an absurd scenario — and obviously, we’d all… Read More
Eat This, Not That: The Top 3 People Foods Poisonous to Dogs
Which human foods are the MOST poisonous to dogs? It’s hard to resist the longing stare of a begging dog, and most of us can’t resist slipping our dog some people food a little now and then. If you’re going to do it, at least make sure what you’re slipping Fido in the palm of… Read More
10 Things Bicycling Taught Me About Veterinary Medicine
Here are four words I never thought I’d hear myself say: “I am a cyclist”. I’ve always detested exercise. If you ever saw me running, there was probably something chasing me. When I started dating my husband, he introduced me to cycling. I bought an entry level bike, thinking it would have been much less… Read More
Risk and Regret: How I Made the Choice to Live
One of my favorite songs is “I Lived” by One Republic. The lyrics include: I owned every second that this world could give I saw so many places, the things that I did With every broken bone, I swear I lived. Isn’t that what we all want to do? If… Read More
You Can Survive Burnout: How To Regroup When Your Year Really Sucked
In the ups and downs of life, we have good years and bad years. Some years are like a dream you never want to leave, filed away in the wistful memory banks as “The Amazing Summer of 2011” or whatnot, and others are particularly nightmarish beast-years you want to set on fire and never mention again…. Read More