Author: Dan Amos
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Joey’s big break
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As autumn seems to be on the verge of appearing, September 11th is on my mind. Not for the obvious reason but because on this day last year Joey got his big break. Not in snooker or on the stage, but his left hind. In a squirrel related incident during a walk he didn’t even…
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Urinalysis
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I’m hoping we all survived the recent heatwave. Sadly, at the height of it, I was confined to my bedroom with a suspected kidney infection and a 38°C temperature. So, no lounging on the beach and swimming for me; more a case of lying in a darkened room and wondering, could you get a positive…
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A classical approach to editorials
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In my ongoing research I was amused to find that editorials in the original veterinary journals started with a Latin phrase – but before I suggest Vet Times resurrect this tradition, let’s see what they were saying and consider why… The editorials of early veterinary journals weren’t always written by the editor. In fact, they…
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Complaints of old
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One of my recent blogs was about an issue with a client, and I didn’t dwell on the cost aspect of the problem – mainly because we know finance is often a sticky issue for the veterinary profession. However on recent tangent historical research, I uncovered an amazing story of a medical complaint based on…
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AGM traditions
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As July is the month of the RCVS Annual General Meeting (AGM), I thought it would be a good time to share a few nuggets of history from RCVS AGMs back in the 1840s and the first few years of the college’s existence. Initially, the AGM was scheduled for the first Monday in May each…
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Diagnose or not?
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The news of Twitter’s sale to Elon Musk has me hoping that all the good stuff on Twitter can remain, and the bad stuff will go… we will see. But recently there was a lovely twitter chat involving @LucyRTyne and @Binky_2301 and more about how to feel if a client uses social media to air…
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Doctor what?
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With recent discussions (VT52.07) about the historic use of words related to our profession, I wanted to answer a question that seems both historic and current: Why were vets not called “doctors”, or “dogtors”, from the establishment of the RCVS in 1844? Currently in the UK vets can use Doctor (or Dr) as an honorary…
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Guts and gory: installing a veterinary filter
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I recently went on a first date and, despite messaging for a bit beforehand, he had managed to hide his anti-vaxxer ideas during that time. I’m always happy to hear other viewpoints on most subjects, so I listened and then the conversation turned to other things. Later, he brought up the thread again and said:…
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Inflamenza
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After last month‘s blog on a portmanteaus, it reminded me of another client-derived term that, again, didn’t need too much explanation. It was a complex presentation on an OOH shift – the patient had been seen at their own vet earlier in the day and had received two injections. The original presentation was for being…
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Reading the signs – safety around dogs
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I’m not sure how to start this blog post… it’s about dog body language and a general inability to read it well. But getting that info across is my stumbling block. It all started (as it seems most things do nowadays) during lockdown. A friend who regularly runs along the seafront near me had commented…