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Went to an appointment today that I made over a month ago with a pulmonologist. Left appointment right away because they maybe don’t accept my student health insurance plan and I didn’t want to fork over $200 for the office visit and risk not getting reimbursed. Called my insurance provider who said the pulmonologist was in my plan, albeit as a tier two provider, but in the plan nonetheless.....basically confirming what I had already looked up online before scheduling the appointment. I don’t know what to believe, so **** it. I’ll just let my allergist one floor suite over manage my asthma. He, allegedly, is in network as a first tier provider.... for now.....maybe...
 
Jess Monster said:
Went to an appointment today that I made over a month ago with a pulmonologist. Left appointment right away because they maybe don’t accept my student health insurance plan and I didn’t want to fork over $200 for the office visit and risk not getting reimbursed. Called my insurance provider who said the pulmonologist was in my plan, albeit as a tier two provider, but in the plan nonetheless.....basically confirming what I had already looked up online before scheduling the appointment. I don’t know what to believe, so **** it. I’ll just let my allergist one floor suite over manage my asthma. He, allegedly, is in network as a first tier provider.... for now.....maybe...
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UGHHH IM SORRY INSURANCE IS THE ****ING BANE OF MY EXISTENCE!!!! I FEEL YOU!!! ITS THE WORST!!!!!

(i mean, it's amazing and 100000% necessary and having even ****ty insurance is better than not having any.... but JFC why is it such a PITA?! ......i'm esp salty about insurance rn because i turn 26 next week and lose my parents insurance feb 1, so i'll be going onto medicaid next month and have to change all my doctors and my main medication isn't covered at all if you're over 20 years old. i'm thrilled i tell you, thrilled!)
 
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grebes4lyfe said:
UGHHH IM SORRY INSURANCE IS THE ****ING BAIN OF MY EXISTENCE!!!! I FEEL YOU!!! ITS THE WORST!!!!!

(i mean, it's amazing and 100000% necessary and having even ****ty insurance is better than not having any.... but JFC why is it such a PITA?! ......i'm esp salty about insurance rn because i turn 26 next week and lose my parents insurance feb 1, so i'll be going onto medicaid next month and have to change all my doctors and my main medication isn't covered at all if you're over 20 years old. i'm thrilled i tell you, thrilled!)
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That blows I'm on Medicaid right now too and it's a PITA as well. There's no escape
 
grebes4lyfe said:
WHITE PELIIIISSSSS

SUCH ASSHOLESSSSSSSSS

I LUV THEMMMMMMMMM even when they try to eat my face
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Oh, so that's what they're called "white pelicans," eh? Didn't know their name - thanks for the info.

They never bother me although they like to find out what I'm eating. Don't ever feed them though. So, they eventually leave.
 
@Miranda Senft @grebes4lyfe bump!

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sheltermed said:
OSU Veterinary Center treats puppy born with upside-down paws
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Yes! We’re really excited, this is buzzing up a lot of news publicity for our school. However, that being said I reaaaaally hope it ends in a good outcome, but yeah that doctor is great. He complimented my suture technique at the suture wetlab, and when I was a first year, he was helping me with the gigli wire and said that I did a really great job with my hindlimb amputation!
 
My fave is the clarks (yellower bill, green leg band) because he dives for his fish like a good birb
 
batsenecal said:
https://www.avma.org/news/javmanews/pages/190201m.aspx

Not to break up the birb love going on, but Arizona sounds pretty confident they're going to get a letter of assurance from the COE.
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It's one of my associate dean's that got hired. She helped to lead the curriculum change here, and I'm assuming that's going well so far. I haven't looked at their plans recently, but weren't they floating the plan of conditionally admitting people to the DVM program as college freshman, and then changing that depending on how they did in their first couple of semesters?
 
Teepster87 said:
It's one of my associate dean's that got hired. She helped to lead the curriculum change here, and I'm assuming that's going well so far. I haven't looked at their plans recently, but weren't they floating the plan of conditionally admitting people to the DVM program as college freshman, and then changing that depending on how they did in their first couple of semesters?
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I think that was part of their original, shot-down curriculum where they were modeling it after the European schools. There's currently no info of their new curriculum plans on their website.
 
batsenecal said:
https://www.avma.org/news/javmanews/pages/190201m.aspx

Not to break up the birb love going on, but Arizona sounds pretty confident they're going to get a letter of assurance from the COE.
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They sounded pretty confident last time they had the COE review their curriculum, didn't they? I'm honestly wondering at this point if they're simply aiming to be persistent and keep making tweaks until their program is approved

I'm not sure how they're going to set up 3 year, year round program successfully though. Even 2+2 programs are pretty tough to get through academically and those students still get breaks.

I mean, just from a burnout perspective - I am getting off a break that was over a month long and I still don't want to go back with every fiber of my being. I simply cannot imagine the unbelievable challenges involved in being in veterinary school that long without some summer breaks in there.

I'm also curious how that's supposed to work for students who would otherwise use the time off to obtain productive/valuable experiences related to future career paths - things like research opportunities, externships, travel abroad, travel to out of state clinics or schools for opportunities, etc. Some of these things are month+ long opportunities that simply can't be fit in as an externship rotation during fourth year.
 
vetmedhead said:
I mean, just from a burnout perspective - I am getting off a break that was over a month long and I still don't want to go back with every fiber of my being. I simply cannot imagine the unbelievable challenges involved in being in veterinary school that long without some summer breaks in there.
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Agreed on all counts. Illinois squeezes all our didactics into 24/32 weeks per year (72 weeks total) with decent breaks and it's rough. I can't imagine doing all of it in 64 weeks straight in a row.
 
So we have a doctor, and she was trying to recruit our dogs for a food trial. She told us we would get a months worth of kibble and treats.

That’s cool I guess, whatever. Not many people in our class signed up.

She then came in today, and said that in addition to a months worth of kibble and treats, you ALSO get a free CBC, Chem panel, UA, T4, and fecal exam.

Unsurprisingly, a lot of us are signed up now. :laugh:
 
cdoconn said:
So we have a doctor, and she was trying to recruit our dogs for a food trial. She told us we would get a months worth of kibble and treats.

That’s cool I guess, whatever. Not many people in our class signed up.

She then came in today, and said that in addition to a months worth of kibble and treats, you ALSO get a free CBC, Chem panel, UA, T4, and fecal exam.

Unsurprisingly, a lot of us are signed up now. :laugh:
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Something like this happened for my class too. Couple weeks ago the school asked for volunteers for a focus group. They only got like 2 or 3 so today they sent an email with the subject line "Would you like $50?!?!" In 8 hours 12/16 spots are filled.
 
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