The first day of school is always an interesting time. I’ve had many of them but this one is different. Today I start my clinical year in the veterinary teaching hospital. Every vet student dreams of getting to clinics and it hasn’t really sunk in that I no longer will be sitting through hours of […]
Beating Hearts
Palpating cows and mares is a big part of large animal medicine. The main reason to perform this procedure is for pregnancy detection and today I got the opportunity to practice on a pregnant mare. While I have palpated many cows, I was rather excited for this opportunity because I had only palpated one mare […]
Discovering the Secrets of Ultrasound
One of the things I was most excited to learn in vet school was how to use the ultrasound machine. Three years ago, when I was shadowing a local vet, I thought it was so cool to see how she could quickly locate a bladder; poke a small needle through the skin and the bladder […]
