Vet Times

Tag: Vaccination

  • Tips for your first month as a new graduate vet

    Tips for your first month as a new graduate vet

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    Your first real day as a vet, stepping through the doors of your practice for the first time, feels like it’s never going to come. But when it does, it’s exciting, its terrifying, it’s surreal and it’s overwhelming – all in one. Your university has likely done all it can to prepare you for these…

  • Is puppy yoga flexibly ethical?

    Is puppy yoga flexibly ethical?

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    Is puppy yoga the new cat café? Is it a new passing trend or here to stay? Either way, as a student with a passion for both fitness and animals, I was initially intrigued. But I can’t help but have concerns for whether this practice is beneficial for all members of the class. Five freedoms…

  • Idiopathic AHDS in dogs: treat with antibiotics or not?

    Idiopathic AHDS in dogs: treat with antibiotics or not?

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    Idiopathic acute haemorrhagic diarrhoea syndrome (AHDS) – previously known as haemorrhagic gastroenteritis – remains the one disease where constant debate exists as to whether antibiotics should be used as part of the standard treatment. The logic behind using antibiotics to prevent bacterial translocation is sound, and if AHDS is truly initiated by Clostridium species or…

  • Doctor what?

    Doctor what?

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    With recent discussions (VT52.07) about the historic use of words related to our profession, I wanted to answer a question that seems both historic and current: Why were vets not called “doctors”, or “dogtors”, from the establishment of the RCVS in 1844? Currently in the UK vets can use Doctor (or Dr) as an honorary…

  • Euthanasia (part 1): caring for the client

    Euthanasia (part 1): caring for the client

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    Euthanasia is a big part of our work as veterinarians. Working in an emergency setting, it is something I have to face on every shift. It doesn’t get any easier no matter how many times I have to do it, but I have fine-tuned my approach over the years so each euthanasia process runs as…

  • Inoxination

    Inoxination

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    Sometimes I feel a bit disconnected from my previous clinical nursing life, despite being immersed in veterinary history every day. However there are joyous moments where everything comes together and I get to see how my journey has got me to this project, which I adore. This week’s moment was a reminder of hearing a…

  • When is a dog not a dog?

    When is a dog not a dog?

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    Every vet has their niche, speciality or personal interest. I think I’m slowly finding that mine may be located somewhere in the gastrointestinal (GI) system; as the daughter of an endoscopy nurse I like to think I’m following in the family footsteps. I was really enjoying my lectures on the topic until we reached the…

  • Another week, another hound injury

    Another week, another hound injury

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    The squirrels are hanging out in my garden to rest after feasting on my neighbour’s cobnut tree, which is very sweet. They only appear in the garden at this time of year to make sure they’re stocked up on the Kentish produce for the winter. This might be a nice seasonal visitation, but I now…

  • Vets in crisis: the perfect storm

    Vets in crisis: the perfect storm

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    Working in veterinary at the minute is hard… We thought it was tough last year, but there always seemed to be a light at the end of the tunnel (staff coming back from furlough, the vaccine rollout, etc). We hoped by now that 2020 would just seem like a bad dream. But no. If anything,…

  • Diversification – from historian to vaccination

    Diversification – from historian to vaccination

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    In my recent interview on VN Happy Hour I was asked an interesting question on diversifying. The question was about how I remained connected with being an RVN now I’m technically a historian. This is a question I’ve asked myself a number of times across my career. I have diversified in several ways – and…