What is a typical morning for a vet?
like what happens every day
Lots of things happen, and profoundly of times, unthinkable things.
My friend works in a vet clinic, she's a vet tech. She tells me about her sunshine all the time.
Anyway, one time a cat came in beside a hole in his neck because a cyst rotted through his d¨Ścolletage and eventually burst. The hole was completely clean, no blood. She said she could see inside his throat though.
Then here was a dog who just got neuter and he was playing rough and broke his stitches.his intestines were falling out. At the clinic they had to cut pieces of his intestine rotten and sew it back together...she said it smelled like $h!t.
Awhile back nearby was a dog who had tapeworms.it was really unpromising and they they had to do surgery, they had to cut up his intestines and throw away the rotting and to a degree eaten parts and sew the rest together.
Just the other day there be a small poodle who got into a fight with a bigger dog. Ruth said she thought the dog single had minor bites in his back since they didn't look that big through the fur. Ruth be holding the dog down while the vet shaved his fur off, along with his skin...she said chunks of skin were one shaved off and it was so bloody. The dog wasn't awake for this though, thank goodness.
Mornings:
Arrive.
Do surgeries (spays, neuters, etc.).
Lunch.
Afternoons:
See appointments (give vaccination, check-ups, etc.).
Go home.
And that's the typical day for a non-emergency small animal vet. Sometimes it varies, sometimes near are X-rays and surgeries to remove foreign objects or correct injuries. Otherwise, that's about it.
Answers: Equine Vet:
Arrive at clinic contained by the morning
Stock truck with all supplies you'll be needing for the day- meds, needles, syringes, xray machines, ultrasound contraption, etc, etc.
Drive to your first farm.
See and treat anywhere between 1 and 10+ horses
Drive to next farm
repeat for the rest of the day- anywhere between 9 and 15 hours
Return to clinic-write up paperwork
Be on telephone call for any emergencies during the night/weekend/day off
Check on horses you've brought into the clinic for observation/surgery/etc
Repeat 6 days a week.
Large animal, 85% equine.
Get up, dance out to the barn and check on any hospitalized cases. Treat the ones that need it, assuming that they haven't been out with them most of the hours of darkness anyway...
Check to see that the truck is properly loaded for the day's scheduled activiites, recheck the call book and guide out. Find out that owner A that has scheduled to have 2 horses vaccinate has now decided to hold 5 horses vaccinated, 3 dentals done, and 4 mares ultrasounded. Hmmmm.chuck the schedule out the window. In the middle of that beckon, the emergency pager goes off, and you answer to find that "so and so's" horse have been colicing all night, but since they didn't want to wages an emergency call, they waited until the morning to call contained by, but "ya gotta get there right now, it's REALLY BAD." Finish the first beckon, head off to treat the emergency, finish that one, and proceed on to the second planned call...in the mean time right customer "Fred" calls in and has a situation that he'd "really, really close to to have squeezed in today..." Fred's a super customer, and you want to hold on to him happy, so you tell them that they'll get worked surrounded by, so long as they're flexible with time. Proceed on with scheduled call, swing back by the office to check in on the hospitalized cases, snatch a bite of food if they're lucky, and head out again. Finish the scheduled year by about 6 PM, and go down and take comfort of "Fred" after hours. Go back to the office and recheck barn patients, drop off any blood work or other sample that need to go out with the lab courier service, and hope to carry a few minutes rest before emergencies start. On a good darkness, there aren't any, and they can get some sleep. On busy night, they don't get to bed at all, grab a few minutes sleep here and here, and start the whole thing over again the next afternoon.
Other days, it's quiet, peaceful, they see a few haul ins, turn see a call or two, and are back and done by the time the office closes for the hours of darkness. They get a peaceful evening and time to get a few things done around domestic. That's part of the joys of the job..I don't know that there's a "typical"..
