The diary of Chris Allen through his vet student years.
Anyone that has watched Bionic Vet will know the story of Oscar the cat that had his back legs chopped of by a combine harvester, and that Prof. Noel Fitzpatrick replaced them with some implanted metal legs. However did you Continue reading Animals helping humans, humans helping animals… One Health
It has been a very long sleep deprived. This past week I have done two of my end of year exams. Monday was pathological physiology and today was epizootiology (infectious diseases). Next week on Wednesday I have pathological anatomy so Continue reading The exams are here…
Sometimes I really wonder if I am good enough to be here. Sure sometimes I can make a good call or get to do cool stuff, but at the end of the day its whether my exams are passed and Continue reading The doubts of being a vet student….
My Friday night plans of studying with a film in the background after visiting the balloon festival vanished a few hours ago with a single phone call asking me to assist in an emergency surgery for a dog bleeding into Continue reading Heading into the bleeding abdomen…
Being a vet student brings great diversity in my daily patients which is one of the reasons I love it so much, today I assisted in surgery on a pigeon. Now this is one of those things that is not Continue reading When pigeons need surgery too…
So the other night I read an article (click here to read the original) where it claimed that to become a specialist surgeon you need 10,000 hours of doing surgery. Before we go any further let’s look at what 10,000 Continue reading 10,000 hours to surgery specialisation
Yesterday morning I picked up the scalpel blade, tensed the skin and made my first cut into the scrotum of a cat… or at least that was my intention. Not enough pressure on the brand new scalpel blade and the Continue reading My first ever castration on a cat…
Since last Wednesday I have barely slept, have been in surgery long past midnight on several nights, and have had the pleasure on one day of seeing the sun rise as I stumbled home to take a shower before heading Continue reading The satisfaction and the pain of being a vet student
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Supreme Rabbit Food I’ve been spending as much time as I can in surgery, this leaves me for very little else at the moment so apologies for the lack of updates. I’ve started quite Continue reading The story of the dancing eyes….
Please ignore any spelling mistakes, I am still slightly tipsy, however I feel like typing so will with the blunt and honest truth. There is no sponsor on this post because of this. So today I passed my general epizootology Continue reading The drunk and honest truth of being a vet student…