The diary of Chris Allen through his vet student years.
Friday again, another morning spent on the farm working with the dairy herd in diseases of ruminants. With Easter so close a lot of people have travelled home and so today’s group is really small. Last time was reproduction work Continue reading Dehorning and holes into the skull…
Sometimes you see really cool things, this is one of those times. A dog presented to a vet clinic in America after trauma and the doctors there shared these scans in a private group – I think they are so Continue reading Comment when you see the problem…
Fridays is either a day of lectures, or more often a morning spent on the farm working with the ruminant vets on cow health. Since the start of the semester this has included foot trimming, a digit amputation, a downed Continue reading Deep and personal with some cows…
Thursdays for me is either protection of the environment which is about cleaning things so I am confused as to why it is in my 5th year of vet school or poultry medicine which is more what I think 5th Continue reading Poultry with a slice of emergency surgery
Being a vet student makes you a member of a truly international community. This is a community of caring, hardworking and extremely compassionate people all with the same goal of helping animals. It is through members of this community that Continue reading Visiting Wroclaw vet school
Something that really is an emergency in small animals is internal bleeding. Now.in dogs this often happens to be from the spleen as a result of a tumour of from a traumatic injury. So this evening I was sitting there Continue reading a horse with the bloody abdomen
Santa is on his rounds (his chief Vet has given the reindeer the all clear), and I have just treated myself to my Christmas bacon sarnies as I managed to find some English bacon this year. I’m writing this as Continue reading Merry Christmas with another summer Christmas Eve….
Forensics is the used of science for legal means, in the case of veterinary forensics it is the use of veterinary knowledge to help in legal cases. Whether that case is animal abuse, a dog attack on a person, or Continue reading Passing Veterinary Forensics – giving voice to those without one
There are times when as a vet student I am pretty horrified, and one of the things that has never sat quite right with me is fetotomy (the cutting up of a dead fetus to remove it from mom). So Continue reading Passing general reproduction talking fetotomy…
One of the most common procedures in veterinary medicine is placing an IV cannula – a little plastic tube with a needle in the middle that can be removed after it is placed that goes into a vein to allow Continue reading A stab in the dark…