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Posted on May 4, 2011
By David Wong, Associate Professor of Equine Medicine I was really excited to start my first job as an equine veterinarian. I joined a practice near a fairly large city as a primarily ambulatory equine practitioner with the occasional small animal thrown in the mix. I thought I was ready to go at it but I [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2011
On the dangers of dining in public as a veterinarian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2az526Fw3
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Posted on July 7, 2010
Written by Mauricio Dujowich, DVM, DACVS As veterinarians we swear to “above all, do no harm”. So my question is what would you do when you are asked to euthanize a healthy animal? I bet the knee-jerk response was to say “of course I would not euthanize a healthy animal”… but let me give you [...]
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Posted on May 10, 2010
As summer and the end of the academic year approaches, many veterinary students are already set in their plans for the summer. Others who like to procrastinate, like myself, may be just beginning to consider their options for what they might do to fill their time. For those of you who are still looking for [...]
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Posted on December 2, 2009
Written by Dr. Jeff Zuba, Associate Veterinarian San Diego Wild Animal Park Probably one of the most memorable aspects of my journey through the University of Wisconsin (undergraduate, graduate and veterinary school) was the career mentorship I received from a select number of professors and veterinarians. Even more meaningful was how they developed from being [...]
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Posted on December 2, 2009
By Bradford P Smith, DVM, DACVIM, Professor Emeritus I recall the summer between my second and third years in veterinary school way back in the 1960s, when I worked in the clinic on the large animal treatment crew. The other students had gone home or to some job off campus, leaving a few of us [...]
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