Vet Times

Tag: Ophthalmology

  • REVIEW: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

    REVIEW: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

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    If you’re reading this, you’re probably white. As a self-help tool, this book is largely for you… To a person of colour, it’s been described to me as more of a crystallisation into words of what was already clear, and a very lived experience. Its value to white people is proportional to the number who…

  • ‘The buzz’

    ‘The buzz’

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    I am, and shall always remain, a city boy. However much I love the peace, simplicity and endless rainfall of the Devon countryside, I feel most alive surround by buildings, traffic, sirens and people. This is surprising because I’m not an especially sociable person, and I am only rarely involved in the sorts of things…

  • You got a friend in me

    You got a friend in me

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    Over the past three years, I’ve found one of the hardest parts about revising at home over the holidays isn’t actually the fact you’re revising at home, but that you’re not revising back at university. Now let me explain, because I know it sounds odd… Why would anyone not want to go home for the…

  • Que será, será

    Que será, será

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    What will be will be: this mantra is one of a handful of things that kept me sane during university exam season. Exam stress has definitely taken its toll, and, one week after finishing, I am still none the wiser as to what day it is or whether I’m coming or going – but that’s…

  • Thank you for everything (so far)

    Thank you for everything (so far)

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    I’ve talked before about how being a vet student is tough, and how getting into a place on a vet course is maybe tougher still – and I won’t lie to you, the studying, the extra hours put in after school, the weekends (if not weeks) spent knee deep in mud or muck (or a…

  • IV as a sign of competence?

    IV as a sign of competence?

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    There’s a trend in our industry that has been apparent to me since the early days of my training and I’m wondering if this attitude is prevalent elsewhere. I see, time and again, the placement of an IV being used as a marker of general nursing skill level and competence. Yet, it‘s common for vet…

  • Being a millennial vet

    Being a millennial vet

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    Millennials are stereotypically considered lazy, entitled and always wanting something for nothing. And having previously discussed the many advantages of employing new graduates (and, therefore, millennials), this sort of labelling angers me. The choices our generation makes are not due to lack of work ethic and naiveté about the future, but rather a reflection on…

  • Student congress season

    Student congress season

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    The new year brought with it my last student congress season. It was the turn of Cambridge to host the Association of Veterinary Students (AVS) Congress this year, and I attended lectures covering a range of disciplines and species. These included: equine dentistry rabbit surgery pig disease epidemiology a TB panel However, my personal favourite…

  • The blind leading the blind

    The blind leading the blind

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    As part of one of our small animal rotations, I spent a couple of days with the ophthalmology service at the University of Glasgow Small Animal Hospital. Not exactly the most clued-up on eyes, I was going in almost blind. I had an idea of common eye conditions and how to manage them, but recognising…