by Rebekah Gunn-Christie, DVM, DACVPA lady at my gym asked me what I do for a living. “I’m a veterinary pathologist,” I said and then paused, smiling, as I waited for the inevitable furrowing of brows and subsequent barrage of questions about my line of work. “You’re a…what?” she asked, her voice trailing off at […]
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by Christy Corp-Minamiji, DVMI’m sitting at a computer at a conference for fish people. No, it isn’t Aqua Man and his court (though how cool would that be??). This is the annual conference of the International Association of Aquatic Animal Medicine. Yep, an entire educational gathering dedicated to veterinarians and other folks whose patients have
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by Christy Corp-Minamiji, DVM “At first it’s all ‘oooh’ and ‘ahhh.’ Then comes the running and the screaming.” I’m paraphrasing one of my favorite lines from the second Jurassic Park movie. This is how I feel about the word “routine.” I’m a huge fan of experience, practice, and even protocols. I believe that repetition builds
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by Mary Newell, DVM Wednesdays are groom days. So in addition to the usual chaos of surgeries, drop offs and appointments, we have grooming clients to deal with as well. In the midst of the noise and phone calls this morning, we get a call from an RV dealer in Houston. The man on the
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by Carol Hillhouse, DVM After almost thirty years in practice, I still see things I have never seen before.To me, the constant variety is veterinary medicine’s greatest asset as a career. My job is never boring! My husband and I own two rural mixed animal practices, and the lifestyle has provided us with a full
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by Teri Ann Oursler, DVM A month ago my sister wanted to know if her Jack Russell Terrier could be sick because he was drinking and peeing all the time. I told her he needed to go to the vet; he could have a simple urinary tract infection or he could have more going on.
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by Christy Corp-Minamiji, DVM“Goldie doesn’t look right. She’s standing sort of funny.”It’s odd how a couple of seemingly benign sentences can bring back remembered chills nearly 20 years after the fact.Veterinarians talk among ourselves about our “bone piles,” the failures we’ve experienced, the patients we’ve lost, the mistakes we’ve made in our careers. Like our
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by Christy Corp-Minamiji, DVMIt’s just a three-word sentence, but uttering those words can make you feel like one of the 300 Spartans about to face the thousands of invading Persians at the battle of Thermopylae or like the guy who lets the winning World Cup goal by. For a medical practitioner, saying “I don’t know”
by Christy Corp-Minamiji, DVMThe phrase “human-animal bond” gets a lot of currency in veterinary medicine as does the acronym-worthy but mouthful-of-marbles-sounding “Veterinary-Client-Patient Relationship.” Yet we almost never hear about the most critical bond and the one that most impacts the success of any veterinary care. The veterinarian-client bond — yeah, I just left out the
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