Monday, 9 July 2012

The Inbetween bits

By ‘inbetween’ I am referring to all the little procedures I am learning along the way, and all the snippets of daily hospital life that I am lucky enough to often witness....

For instance, wandering past the x-ray room last week I stopped to watch an endoscope of a swan. The day before that I observed a veterinary dissection of a fox (it was undergoing a post mortem, after death by natural cause) which allows us to gather information about the health and diseases within wild populations.  And then there was fracture repair on a kestrel…where was my camera!!!

Yesterday I applied eye ointment to a magpie, oral wormer to the crows, and today I’ve been administering syringe medication to hedgehogs (under vet supervision).....and still so, so much to see, learn and do!  I love my job!!




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