2:00 pm Christmas afternoon – only ten more hours to go. I was a first-year resident at the Animal Medical Center (AMC) in New York City, running the hospital and overseeing 20 interns on the one major holiday I was required to cover during my residency in avian and exotic pet medicine. The AMC was […]
Why Exotics?
“You’ll have to check his temperature every 30 minutes until it comes up to normal.” I had to take the temperature of a 3-year-old male pot-bellied pig that had just come out of bladder surgery. This was the first task I was given after starting my 5-week rotation on the Avian and Exotic Pet Service […]
Graduation: Now Onto the Next
After three of the most difficult but exciting years of my life, I am done school vet tech school. I am now an official veterinary technician. If I could speak to my past self she wouldn’t believe that I finally made it. But now, life begins. I have all these skills, all this knowledge, all […]
