Vet Times

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  • Preventing the post-antibiotic apocalypse

    Preventing the post-antibiotic apocalypse

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    I think we may soon lose the battle to keep our right to prescribe most antibiotics for animals, with apocalyptic visions of a “post-antibiotic” era in medicine being mooted. Antibiotics are a victim of their own success. I remember the vet I “saw practice” with in the 80s and 90s having huge glass jars behind him…

  • The dark side

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    Emergency work I think is one of the hardest, if not THE hardest discipline to follow in this profession. That’s because not only do you have to be quick getting to a diagnosis (sometimes making intuitive or logical leaps in lieu of test results) and the fact it touches on virtually every other discipline (making…

  • OSCEs

    OSCEs

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    It’s rolling around to another OSCE window – that memorable day in a SVN’s life when their skills and nerves are put to the test. I remember mine well. My boyfriend drove me to them (thank you darling) and they were handily timed at 10am. I would be finished and having a pub lunch by…

  • David and Goliath

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    Like many of us I take an interest in the happenings of the RCVS and its disciplinary committees. This is becoming an even deeper interest as I work through a Masters degree in law; I am seeing how other professions regulate themselves and are regulated too. Having said that, I am still at the level…