My grandmother died on July 24, 2017. While I feel sad, I don’t know how to fully express my grief. I have shed a few tears but something still seems off about how I feel and how I should feel. I’m not writing this to get sympathy, but rather to let those who have a… Read More
Perspective
What Kid Number 2 Taught Me About Vet Med
A little more than three months ago, my husband and I were blessed to bring another little boy into the world and into our family. While our first son certainly initially turned our world upside down, I thought I had pretty much figured this motherhood thing out. I assumed one kid + one kid =… Read More
Are You Haunted By Negative Exploratories?
A few years ago, I wrote an article entitled “No such thing as a negative exploratory.”* Shortly thereafter, I received an amazing email from a colleague on the other side of the world. Dr. Andreane Daigle, who practices in Queensland, Australia, shared with me a story about an exploratory laparotomy she performed on a vomiting… Read More
The 5 Dr. Seuss Characters in Your Clinic & Why You Need Them
Working in a veterinary clinic requires everyone to have devotion, ethics, and a sense of humor. It really does bring together people from all walks of life into a wubbulous melting pot. Yes, wubbulous because every vet clinic can be like stepping into a new story of the world of Dr. Seuss. No clinic is… Read More
Vet Med Doesn’t Get Easier, and That’s OK
“It only gets worse after you graduate,” a practicing veterinarian once told me. “You have real patients to take care of with real legal consequences if you screw up – things were way simpler in vet school.” I was a first-year veterinary student just trying to survive anatomy at the time, and this piece… Read More
The Truth About the Worst Part of My Job
Today an owner told me I have the worst job in the world. His reasoning was not what I expected. Said owner’s dog was dropped off for an exam by the pet sitter. She said the dog was just not acting right. The owners were out of town and could be expected to… Read More