Vet Times

Tag: Ocular disorders

  • The consequences of making a mistake

    The consequences of making a mistake

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    Fertility work makes up a large proportion of cattle veterinary work in the UK and, after spending a month on the farm rotation at university, I can appreciate the importance of getting it right – and how hard it can be. Experienced large animal vets make it look easy – they scan the uterus and…

  • A view on VN Futures

    A view on VN Futures

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    This is an odd blog to write. I’m still pretty speechless after attending #vetfutures #VNFutures at the start of this month. This, in London, was the launch of both of the working parties’ projects. The VN presentation said everything I want to see for us in the future, and it was an amazing moment in…

  • RCVS council election manifesto: Melissa Donald

    RCVS council election manifesto: Melissa Donald

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    MELISSA DONALD BVMS, MRCVS Otters View, Purclewan Mill, Dalrymple, East Ayrshire KA6 6AN. T 01292 560083 M 07921 384852 E melissadonald88@gmail.com PROPOSERS: Alison Lambert, Freda Scott-Park I started as a food animal intern at Iowa State University, having graduated from Glasgow (1987). After two children, my first full-time position was in a traditional mixed two-person…

  • People are strange

    People are strange

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    I think I might be right in guessing that most of us didn’t join the veterinary profession because we like talking to humans, so it comes as something of a surprise quite how much talking to the pet-owning public is involved in general practice. Communicating with the general public can be delightful, frustrating, inspiring, depressing,…

  • Lost and found: why microchipping is a must

    Lost and found: why microchipping is a must

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    One of our cats – Doogle, a home-loving feline who rarely sets foot outside the garden – recently got himself caught under my mum’s car, only to drop out when she’d driven along a few streets and run, startled, across the fields toward the next village. Posters, local press coverage and Facebook shares resulted in…

  • Careless whisper

    Careless whisper

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    “I’d like you to have a look at her back end. There’s something… well there’s something not quite right.” The thin lady looked at me over her glasses while Honey, her chocolate Labrador, continued to rub the aforementioned back end against me, tongue lolling, eyes rolling and telling me in Labrador-ese that I was her…

  • Experience

    Experience

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    “I’ll never forgive you for this. Never.” The man whispered the words in my ear through his tears as I picked up the still-warm body of his companion of 10 years and turned to carry it back towards the practice. A feeling was growing inside me, making my steps heavy and my head numb –…

  • Indian adventure taught me to embrace the madness

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    One of the many non-academic challenges of becoming a vet is learning to cope with things not going to plan – to expect, or at least accept, the unexpected. It may seem cliché to say travelling opens your eyes to different ways of life and changes you as a person, but the truth is it does prepare…