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Sick days This week I’ve been feeling ill and not sleeping properly from my first night. However on Friday this got to the stage where my head was spinning when I stood up. I did something I’ve never done before and called in sick. Working sole-charge overnight I felt that I would be doing more…
Costs of vet visits This last Monday was a bank holiday. And somehow I ended up on duty. I often avoid writing about costs here as it is such a contentious issue. Running an emergency veterinary service is expensive. And we did not cover the costs of opening and staffing the building. Yet the consult…
It feels as though the week has flown by. End of Module 5 My fifth CertAVP module is nearly complete. I’ve passed all my case reports and the end of module exam. I’ve still got to submit my case log however I need a couple more (specific) cases to be able to complete this so…
As I sit and write this I am exhausted. This has been my hardest week of nights so far. In addition to our own normal workload, we picked up the workload of another OOH practice. Luckily this was only for four nights (out of seven) however it added another 10 practices to those we normally…
I’ve just finished my week of nights and today I start my week off. Last Tuesday I was told that I would be finally starting on days. Looking ahead there are a few cool surgeries booked in already so I am excited. When I was in first opinion practice I removed a few mast cell…
The second in my new weekly blog commitment this week, still not sure how this will work. It will be fun seeing what happens though. This last week should have been my week of days at my internship however because of covid-19 they are still not allowing interns into the building. This means I am…
This was my off week. I finished my run of nights on Monday morning so this week is mostly recovery and getting my sleep pattern normal. I’ve been struggling with this recently though, with it taking me several days to go back to normal. And even now my sleep is weird – somewhere between 6pm-2am.…
This book appeared in my suggested reads on amazon, and glancing no further than the title I pressed the order button and it arrived a few days later. Whilst consulting I meet and talk with many people every day and I was expecting this book to give me tips to make that easier. However this…
Sometimes I am so busy that days blend into weeks, and weeks into months, and months into years. Having time to just sit, and look back at what I have done, is uncommon. So here I am taking a look back… Years graduated: 3Consults: 11,000+Surgeries: 700+Current role: Intern I officially finished the CVS New Graduate…
I’ve seen one of the documentaries with Dr Jay previously which I found fascinating so I was really excited to get stuck into his book. It was a day well spent reading, as once I started I could not stop. Dr Jay starts with the journey of how he ended up as a paediatric neurosurgeon,…