Have you ever seen a professor include the following on his or her opening slide for a PowerPoint lecture? “How did you start the day? Consider starting your day by giving yourself the gift of happiness.” Well, I have! It was incredibly refreshing to see those words projected onto the big screen for all one […]
Be One with Your Patient
One day during my externship in a cat hospital, I was asked to listen to a cat’s heart. Even though I shut the door and tried hard to listen to its heart, all I can tell was that the cat had a fast heart rate, no arrhythmia nor murmur. When I returned to the doctor’s […]
Habits
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle Vet school is as much an exercise in memorization as it is one in routine. Striving for success, no matter how we define it, requires developing a system of doing something and then sticking to it. We have had […]
