Small animal medicine
“… I have a Bernese Mountain Dog… which is kind of ridiculous.”
“The other thing about cancer cells that’s really dastardly…”
“… well it won’t be available for the dogs that were dead…”
“…cut them off and put it under the mattress with a frog’s leg and it will go away.”
“I’d rather have 6 years with a boxer than 17 years with a Chihuahua”
“3 days later his right atrium ruptured… which is suboptimal”
“he will get revenge… in a multitude of ways… most involving urine and feces.”
“when clients freak out about amputation, I ask ‘how many legs do you have?’ and they say ‘well… 2.’ And I say ‘well, you do pretty well.’”
“and then the reconstruction people will build you a new nose and you and you can go into public.”
“no pet should die without the benefit of steroids.”
“the recurrent laryngeal nerve is something one avoids in surgery if one can.”
“there are lots of important things with long names in there… and some short names too.”
“we’re talking therapeutic radiation, not nuclear destruction…”
“a cure for cancer is to live long enough to die of something else.”
“that’s a surgery for a person really experienced at removing sphincters”
“this is the rectum of a dog… but it’s too close for you to tell that.”
“You can’t just walk up to someone you don’t know and say ‘this is a bad plan!’”
“And no one knew then that cisplatin splats cats…”
“I said ‘I don’t know if this treatment is going to be possible because we need to be able to get the bloodwork faster…’ and he said ‘Oh, ok. I’ll get a plane.’ And he flew in for every chemo treatment the dog needed.”
“perhaps they are smart about some things… but this is not one of them.”
Radiology
“if you think you can slap a cast on any fracture, you’re living in the 1940’s”
“if you’re left with a jaw that doesn’t work… you’re screwed”
“you can use your brain and be right a lot of the time.”
“but my grandma didn’t go to vet school… you did.”
“… I would be correct, and I would be a bad doctor”
Large animal medicine
“no matter what is wrong with a horse, with a heart rate of 120… it’s bad.”
“normal horses are pretty boring”
Animal Models
“Betty White’s writing kind of induces violence.. but she doesn’t do it herself… she’s kind of old..”
Surgery
“He’s young and nice… I’m going to try to fix that… I can’t fix the young…”
“I’m probably not going to bite your head off… almost definitely”
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Emergency Response and Management
So far, my favorite class is my Emergency Response and Management elective. It's essentially about the process of preparing for and responding to crisis events. Those include any size natural disasters (tornadoes, hurricanes, earth quakes, flood, drought, etc.), infrastructure disasters (bridge collapse, fire, etc.), terrorist attacks, etc.
The grade in the class is based on completing 4 of the FEMA training classes for emergency response (and attendance.) Because of this, the students in this class will be in the first group of people that the vet school response team will pull from for students to take to disaster response.
We're also listening to lectures about the process of preparing a community for disasters- either in their area or what they should plan to do to shelter other communities.
I'm kind of hoping that something happens during 4th year that we'll get called to respond to! I think it would be awesome!
Actually, on this topic, September is Emergency Preparedness Month! You should check out this link and make sure that you and your pets are prepared!
http://www.ready.gov/america/
The grade in the class is based on completing 4 of the FEMA training classes for emergency response (and attendance.) Because of this, the students in this class will be in the first group of people that the vet school response team will pull from for students to take to disaster response.
We're also listening to lectures about the process of preparing a community for disasters- either in their area or what they should plan to do to shelter other communities.
I'm kind of hoping that something happens during 4th year that we'll get called to respond to! I think it would be awesome!
Actually, on this topic, September is Emergency Preparedness Month! You should check out this link and make sure that you and your pets are prepared!
http://www.ready.gov/america/
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Alcoholic Monkeys!
Today in Primate Medicine we learned about lots and lots and lots of different kinds of monkeys.
However, my favorite was the African Green Monkeys. They have a very strong dominance hierarchies, which has been interesting in studies using them to study alcoholism. The monkeys really enjoy screwdrivers (orange juice and vodka). The alpha ones, however, don't drink much because they're too busy protecting their social status. The ones in the middle of the social structure drink socially for fun. The ones at the bottom of the social ladder become alcoholics.
That would be a really interesting study to have participated in! Though, perhaps not to clean up after. Drunk people are annoying enough; I can't imagine drunk monkies.
However, my favorite was the African Green Monkeys. They have a very strong dominance hierarchies, which has been interesting in studies using them to study alcoholism. The monkeys really enjoy screwdrivers (orange juice and vodka). The alpha ones, however, don't drink much because they're too busy protecting their social status. The ones in the middle of the social structure drink socially for fun. The ones at the bottom of the social ladder become alcoholics.
That would be a really interesting study to have participated in! Though, perhaps not to clean up after. Drunk people are annoying enough; I can't imagine drunk monkies.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Back to School!
I am having my (probably? maybe?) last first week of school ever!
I haven't had the first lecture of all my classes yet, but so far things are going really well! However, I am a little nervous about the fact that my schedule changes significantly every 4 weeks! That's kind of scary. I'm pretty sure that a lot of us are going to show up in the wrong places at least a couple times.
I haven't had the first lecture of all my classes yet, but so far things are going really well! However, I am a little nervous about the fact that my schedule changes significantly every 4 weeks! That's kind of scary. I'm pretty sure that a lot of us are going to show up in the wrong places at least a couple times.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Finals!
I'm not expecting to blog much this week... I'm going to be immersed in finals.
Monday: Pathology
I need an 80% on this one to get an A in the class. Not bad!
Tuesday: Radiology
I need a 91% on this one to get an A in the class. That kind of makes me nervous.
Wednesday: Infectious Disease and Public Health
I need an 83% on Infectious Disease and a 70% on Public Health for A's.
Thursday: Toxicology
I'm riding a 102% in the class right now. Based on the weight of the final, I need an 81% for an A.
Friday: Surgery/Anesthesiology
Since I have no real idea of what I made on the lab practical last week, I don't really know what I need for an A. Probably something beween an 82-87%. Hopefully she'll get the lab test back to us before the end of the week.
Monday: Pathology
I need an 80% on this one to get an A in the class. Not bad!
Tuesday: Radiology
I need a 91% on this one to get an A in the class. That kind of makes me nervous.
Wednesday: Infectious Disease and Public Health
I need an 83% on Infectious Disease and a 70% on Public Health for A's.
Thursday: Toxicology
I'm riding a 102% in the class right now. Based on the weight of the final, I need an 81% for an A.
Friday: Surgery/Anesthesiology
Since I have no real idea of what I made on the lab practical last week, I don't really know what I need for an A. Probably something beween an 82-87%. Hopefully she'll get the lab test back to us before the end of the week.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
“… and then you had an epiphany.”
Love him or hate him, I find Dr. Willard’s lecture style in our (pre-)correlates class hilarious.
We’re given a case presentation and lab data about a week before class and are expected to generate a list of the most likely diagnoses, a set of tests we’d like to run to narrow it down more, and what we would do to treat the animal right then. In class, he calls on people from the class roster and asks them questions about the case. (He’s always going to ask you why you said what you said, too.)
If you’re wrong, he corrects you by saying, “… and then you had an epiphany…”
I have to try really hard not to crack up every time he says it! It such a hilarious and tactful way to say that you’re wrong and you should try again. (It can get frustrating, though, to watch a classmate flounder while you have an answer you’d like to give.)
We’re given a case presentation and lab data about a week before class and are expected to generate a list of the most likely diagnoses, a set of tests we’d like to run to narrow it down more, and what we would do to treat the animal right then. In class, he calls on people from the class roster and asks them questions about the case. (He’s always going to ask you why you said what you said, too.)
If you’re wrong, he corrects you by saying, “… and then you had an epiphany…”
I have to try really hard not to crack up every time he says it! It such a hilarious and tactful way to say that you’re wrong and you should try again. (It can get frustrating, though, to watch a classmate flounder while you have an answer you’d like to give.)
Friday, April 23, 2010
Funny/Interesting Things Professors Say #4
Professor quotes
Path
“and if you’re a human… which everyone in here is…”
“It’s the retching of all retching…”
“If you have proteinuria… let me know!”
“If you’re a person, and we all are…”
Inf. Dz
“If I can’t latch on and I’m in the GI tract, I get washed out.”
“As you’re walking down the alley, the cows are lifting their tails and literally shooting it at you.”
“Veterinarians are the foremost poop-ologists.”
“That’s pretty close to screamin’ high.”
Tox
“Let me tell you what these stupid sheep do.”
“Any questions on LSD?”
“some people swear by fescue, other people swear at fescue.”
“I guess it’s ok to mutilate them as long as you don’t pick them.”
“I figure if they’re edible, I’ll eat them. I’m not picking anything off a cow patty.”
“people really want to get somebody else to pay for their mistakes.”
“We’ve been fighting France’s wars for year.”
“If you have to be bitten by one of these snakes… you want the copperhead.”
Surgery
“there are a lot of voices that go on in my head, but that’s not one of them”
“look at me! I can do hand ties. Breaks the ice with people..”
“It can be a pretty… whole body experience… to do those surgeries.”
Public Health
“What about the cool, new, sexy organisms.”
“I sit in the men’s restroom and hear the commode flush and I listen… then I hear the sink.”
“We need to learn from the blacks. They’re washing their hands.”
“There’s a stranger out there, and he’s got a pig under his coat. He’s probably a bioterrorist.”
“You’re supposed to know it.. but I’m not going to test on it because I can’t remember it either.”
“The kid gets overexcited about the kitten, the kitten gets underexcited about the kid, and voila! The gets scratched.)
“To a cat, the whole world is a litter box.”
“What are you, a laboratorian?”
“Are there any fish people… not fish people… aquarium types in here?”
“When you don’t have enclosed spaces for cats, you have escapees… which is sub-optimal.”
“45% of people have more than 1 pet… especially the cat folks.”
“long haired cats are like dust mops”
“it will turn a cat yellow… if you do it only once, it probably won’t be permanent.”
“I don’t know many dolphins that go hiking in the woods”
“lepto really, really likes Hawaii… can’t really blame it…”
“There’s nothing here that really screams ‘ I have leptospirosis!’”
“If you had to pick a brucella to be infected with… pick canis.”
Path
“and if you’re a human… which everyone in here is…”
“It’s the retching of all retching…”
“If you have proteinuria… let me know!”
“If you’re a person, and we all are…”
Inf. Dz
“If I can’t latch on and I’m in the GI tract, I get washed out.”
“As you’re walking down the alley, the cows are lifting their tails and literally shooting it at you.”
“Veterinarians are the foremost poop-ologists.”
“That’s pretty close to screamin’ high.”
Tox
“Let me tell you what these stupid sheep do.”
“Any questions on LSD?”
“some people swear by fescue, other people swear at fescue.”
“I guess it’s ok to mutilate them as long as you don’t pick them.”
“I figure if they’re edible, I’ll eat them. I’m not picking anything off a cow patty.”
“people really want to get somebody else to pay for their mistakes.”
“We’ve been fighting France’s wars for year.”
“If you have to be bitten by one of these snakes… you want the copperhead.”
Surgery
“there are a lot of voices that go on in my head, but that’s not one of them”
“look at me! I can do hand ties. Breaks the ice with people..”
“It can be a pretty… whole body experience… to do those surgeries.”
Public Health
“What about the cool, new, sexy organisms.”
“I sit in the men’s restroom and hear the commode flush and I listen… then I hear the sink.”
“We need to learn from the blacks. They’re washing their hands.”
“There’s a stranger out there, and he’s got a pig under his coat. He’s probably a bioterrorist.”
“You’re supposed to know it.. but I’m not going to test on it because I can’t remember it either.”
“The kid gets overexcited about the kitten, the kitten gets underexcited about the kid, and voila! The gets scratched.)
“To a cat, the whole world is a litter box.”
“What are you, a laboratorian?”
“Are there any fish people… not fish people… aquarium types in here?”
“When you don’t have enclosed spaces for cats, you have escapees… which is sub-optimal.”
“45% of people have more than 1 pet… especially the cat folks.”
“long haired cats are like dust mops”
“it will turn a cat yellow… if you do it only once, it probably won’t be permanent.”
“I don’t know many dolphins that go hiking in the woods”
“lepto really, really likes Hawaii… can’t really blame it…”
“There’s nothing here that really screams ‘ I have leptospirosis!’”
“If you had to pick a brucella to be infected with… pick canis.”
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