Blog: vet care
What Does a Veterinary Assistant Do?
More recently I’ve been working as a TSA (Table Side Assistant as we call them here) – also known as a Veterinary Assistant. And yet again I hear “Oh, you’re just an assistant. You just play with puppies and kittens all day.” When I’m in the TSA role, my job...
Your Pet’s Physical Exam: The Series by Dr. Brenda Gough
What’s in a check up? Yes there’s just too much to tell in one blog, so I’m going to spread this out a bit! The physical examination may take what feels like just minutes, but there’s a TON of information that we are getting from that ‘once-over’. It’s so much more than...
Pet Peeves… from a Vets’ perspective! by Dr. Sarah Martin
This may be a recurring topic for me. A forum to rant about some of the misconceptions held in veterinary medicine that have, I think, been propagated by well-meaning vets. Yes, us. How you ask? Well, we give you our clinical impression, we play the odds, we don’t like to...
