Archive for the Learning The Hard Way Category

Being Late To The Most Important Test Of My Life

Posted on November 17, 2011

It was late November. After waking up, having a bite to eat, and trying to cram the last few facts about pig diarrhea into my brain before my NAVLE, I headed out to the most important test of my life. The tests are given at Prometric testing centers, which are rooms with rows of computer [...]

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Being Late To The Most Important Test Of My Life

Posted on November 1, 2010

It was late November. After waking up, having a bite to eat, and trying to cram the last few facts about pig diarrhea into my brain before my NAVLE, I headed out to the most important test of my life.  The tests are given at Prometric testing centers, which are rooms with rows of computer [...]

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Learning The Hard Way: A True Story

Posted on February 3, 2010

Written By Bradford P Smith, Professor Emeritus, Univ of California , Davis Many years ago there was an equine veterinarian who had a young daughter. Not surprisingly she liked horses, and she was certainly the apple of her father`s eye. He was a creative man and liked to build toys for his children. In those [...]

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Learning the Hard Way: Pain in the Eye

Posted on November 1, 2009

What seemed to be a routine farm call ended up being a major learning experience for me as a new graduate in a large animal practice. The call was simple enough, so I thought; examine a horse with excessive tearing from the right eye. What wasn’t so simple was the owner of the horse, Mrs. [...]

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Learning The Hard Way: Fire in the Barn

Posted on October 1, 2009

“Learning the Hard Way” is a new column in the Veterinary Examiner meant to impart experience and knowledge from memorable experiences in the veterinary field and in the clinics. The goal of this column is to allow you to learn from other’s mistakes, instead of learning from your own. Names of individuals (human and animal) [...]

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