“That’s awesome!” I exclaimed out loud. In my left hand, I held a jar full of alcohol. Suspended within were seven maggots that had just been plucked from the neck of a wild bird. The intern beside me raised an eyebrow. “We have different ideas of awesome,” he said before giving me a dirty look. […]
Pathology: My Loon
Over the past two weeks, we’ve seen some really amazing pathologies in the many species we’ve necropsied. We saw emphysematous cystitis (gas in the bladder wall) in a foal, a gastric dilatation and volvulus (when the stomach twists) in a dog, and severe pneumonia in cows and sheep. I could go on and on about […]
Pathology: Week Two
This past week in pathology, we saw a bit more farm animal specimens than in the previous week, which brought up many new and interesting disease processes. We had a couple of sheep, two lambs and an adult that all coincidentally had pneumonia. It was an interesting point of learning, however, to compare the severity […]
