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  • Induced vomiting from the nurse’s perspective

    Induced vomiting from the nurse’s perspective

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    New RVN author Dale Gillies starts off her Vet Times blogging career with a tasteful little piece about the best ways to make a dog revisit its last meal…

  • Euthanasia: lets talk about it

    Euthanasia: lets talk about it

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    I think your first PTS as a new graduate is a significant moment across the board; there’s nothing that truly prepares you for it, as it’s very unlikely you’ll have seen many during work experience placements. Personally, I hadn’t seen a single one with the owner present. Your university might try to prepare you by…

  • The revision roller coaster

    The revision roller coaster

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    At this stage of the year, it’s hard for me to write about anything but revision. So, for those of you reading this as a means to escape, I can only apologise. At the same time, if your idea of time off from studying is reading my work-related articles, then I think we need to…

  • The pen is mightier than the scalpel

    The pen is mightier than the scalpel

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    For some, my past A-level choices of biology, chemistry and English literature may seem an odd mixture. At first glance, the arts and the sciences don’t seem go hand in hand, and are often viewed as polar opposites. I even remember being asked during one of my veterinary interviews if my decision to study English…

  • All creatures great and small: big dog, bigger impact?

    All creatures great and small: big dog, bigger impact?

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    Dan Amos

    Rescues and breeders both agree on one thing: small dogs are more popular than big dogs. Having recently made the move from a small dog to big dog owner, I’ve been reflecting on the differences in terms of his impact. Is a big dog more money, work and impact than a small dog? Money I…

  • What’s in a name? The story of Edward and Albert

    What’s in a name? The story of Edward and Albert

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    Dan Amos

    As part of considering our professional identities as vets and vet nurses, I’m often struck with the notion that diagnosing and giving a name to something is a very important part of the patient journey. Reading back through the archives and being able to match descriptions of symptoms that are well-known diseases today is fascinating.…

  • Professor Edward Coleman

    Professor Edward Coleman

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    Dan Amos

    Am I really already writing my blogs for the halfway point of the year? It would seem so, and I’m having a look back at an earlier blog from this year. In March, I wrote about “nurse pets” – those missing the parts other pet owners would expect as standard, but that we nurses don’t…

  • The fallacy of prophecy

    The fallacy of prophecy

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    Evolution by natural selection has provided us with some wonderful tools to make sense of and manipulate the world. All of us carry around one of the most complicated objects in the universe within our skull, and our bloated, folded brains are able create illusionary facsimiles of the world around us, and imagine what may…

  • ‘The buzz’

    ‘The buzz’

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    I am, and shall always remain, a city boy. However much I love the peace, simplicity and endless rainfall of the Devon countryside, I feel most alive surround by buildings, traffic, sirens and people. This is surprising because I’m not an especially sociable person, and I am only rarely involved in the sorts of things…

  • A different kind of exam

    A different kind of exam

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    A veterinary career and examinations go hand in hand. I can’t count the number of papers I’ve sat over the last quarter of my life that have opened the doors to where I am now. If you manage to make it even half way through the vet course it can be assumed you have mastered…