My background is in wildlife biology. My bachelor’s degree was in wildlife and pre-veterinary medicine. Before I got into vet school, I worked at a wildlife rehabilitation facility; however, once I got into vet school, I realized that I was lacking the hands-on experience. For one, there wasn’t a lot of free time to gain […]
Recollections of Residency
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 […]
