I think one of the greatest things we can do as doctors is admitting that we don’t have all the answers because we don’t. And if we think we do, we don’t. We never will. Years of training and experience, even though it may feel like it, won’t endow us with swathes of knowledge. There’s […]
It All Starts to Click
Recently I discovered I have been experiencing an increasing amount of “Eureka!” moments in my daily learning experiences. Over the past two years, I crammed all of the physiology, biochemistry, and anatomy into my head that I could. Many times I felt overwhelmed by the amount of knowledge I was gaining and anxious about how […]
Turning Off My “Medicine Brain”
Every day, I sit in hours of lectures and labs, filling my brain with information about nutrition, diseases, and medications for all kinds of species. But I’ve found that once I leave class, I begin to analyze every animal I see for body condition score, the completeness of its diet, or any potential ailments or lameness. […]
