Some details have been kept general to protect the confidentiality of the patient and owner. A male cat was booked in as an emergency after he had been repeatedly straining to urinate for several days. The vet examining him, who was also the practice owner, identified a suspected urethral obstruction. Repeated visits to the litter...
A key part of my route into veterinary medicine is getting as much breadth of experience as I can. Not just different species, but different settings, teams and ways of working. Every practice has its own rhythm: how people communicate, how they prepare, how they manage risk, and how they look after animals before, during...
Settling into the rhythm My first month at Vets4Pets Redditch has taught me that working in veterinary practice is not just about learning clinical information. It is also about learning pace, rhythm, focus, and how to stay steady when lots of things are happening at once. I expected the medicine to be the steepest learning...
I did this lambing placement because I wanted something I could not get from a classroom, a podcast, or a tidy case study. If I’m serious about veterinary medicine, I need to understand not just individual animals, but the systems around them. I need to see what good care looks like when there are hundreds,...
