Veterinarians: Haters gonna hate, but you don't have toJanuary 12, 2017I’ve wanted to be a veterinarian since I was 7 years old. If I’m to believe all the smarmy stories my veterinarian friends tell with respect to their first pets, first jobs and first loves, this probably sounds familiar. (Yes, I tell those smarmy stories, too.)
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13 things the mentally strong don't doJanuary 11, 2017Amy Morin lost her mother to a brain aneurysm. Then she lost her husband to a heart attack. Many people in her situation would have ended up bitter or depressed, but not Morin, a psychotherapist near Bangor, Maine.
3 scholarships vet students should look intoJanuary 3, 2017With the cost of veterinary school basically leaving every student in massive soul-crushing debt, anything to help ease some of that is only a good thing. U.S. News & World Report came out with a list of scholarships that can help with just that.
The strangest things vet techs have heard clients sayJanuary 2, 2017It's time for another round of "weird stuff clients say!" vet tech edition, this one with a little more snark than usual. Courtesy r/VetTech on Reddit.
10 things to look forward to in vet school, as explained in tweetsDecember 28, 2016The holiday season is almost over, and that means for veterinary students, soon you'll be back to the daily, crazy, grind that is vet school.
Veterinarians: Do you want a job or a career?December 20, 2016It’s a question I’ve never had to ask myself. I never saw veterinary medicine as anything but my beloved profession, my own brilliant career.
7 annoying habits that cause problems in the vet practiceDecember 14, 2016Marshall Goldsmith makes an interesting observation in his excellent best-seller book “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” (Hyperion, 2007).
Is veterinary medicine a depressing profession?December 14, 2016I’m glad that suicide and depression in the veterinary profession are out of the closet and getting the attention they deserve. But might the subjects be getting too much attention?
Open letters to recent grads and rising vet cliniciansNovember 22, 2016Twenty-one years ago today(-ish) I was trudging through the pervasive travesty commonly referred to as trial by fire. While working in my first months post-graduation as a full-fledged clinician—sans internship, residency or onsite mentor—I made hundreds of mistakes, at least one of which proved fatal.
Vet clinic does the #MannequinChallengeNovember 18, 2016Ah, the Mannequin Challenge. It's a challenge that swept the Internet less than a month ago, and everyone from celebrities to presidential nominees have done it.
