The diary of Chris Allen through his vet student years.
Unfortunately vets deal with life and death every day, patients will die. With this there are owners who are suffering from grief. It is an emotional time that can quickly escalate out of control by doing what now comes naturally Continue reading Why online bullying is a new problem for vet suicides…
I was deeply saddened yesterday to read about the shelter vet that was bullied to suicide. Sadly with social media there is a lot of power given to people – however it is how they choose to use it as Continue reading The truth about animal shelters
What feels like forever ago when I first started my diary I was counting up each day another day on my journey to becoming a vet. Now however I am counting down – that is either scary that I will Continue reading 400 days to graduation…
Something that is said a lot by surgeons is that unless you do something then you will never understand just what it takes. I realised today that this feeling depends on what you are doing. For routine stuff such as Continue reading The big gaping hole in the skin…
Most mammals, birds and reptiles rely on oxygen passing into their lungs to survive, with most of them doing so via a tube from the mouth to the lungs called a trachea. The size of this is normally relative to Continue reading The collapsing trachea…
Today is the end of the semester, it is scary how fast it has come, and more scary that in a little over a month I will start my state exams. As off today my education from university in exotic Continue reading The end of the semester…
I came across this and had to share – it is written by Dr Ravi Jayaram I have kept quiet on here until now about the junior doctor’s strike but the time has come to stand up and say what Continue reading Why did the doctors go on strike?