Hello all,
The interesting thing about veterinary medicine is that you get to know a lot about medicine, and even quite a bit that translates into the human field. One of the things I remember from my time at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine is that day when we graduated. For some reason, I do remember some of the different parts of our commencement day. We had several of our instructors speak to us.
One in particular I remember was Dr. Loyd Helper. He is an Ophthalmologist, who was also one of the Deans in the school. He said, now that we have a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, we have a lot of medical knowledge. We are licensed to practice medicine on any animal except humans. He said he also knew that some of us would be tempted to ignore him, and practice human medicine. He said if you plan on doing that, at least be stupid enough to only do so on yourself, and not your family.
So I don't, which is why we had my wife into the Doctor 3 times during the previous week, and on Saturday, they finally admitted her to the hospital.
So I have been a bit distracted this week, and did not get a chance to Blog about some of the very interesting education we have had the chance to attend.
We'll talk about dentistry, CO2 laser, and snoring dogs in upcoming blogs.
Thank you.
