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[WildZoo]

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Your ER lets you sleep!?!

Every year with a new intern class, I would make sure to tell them to pay no mind to the 'incoming cases' board because probably half or more would never show up. And never, never, never take a call about a transfer from a pDVM and then run to the relevant specialist to tell them something is en route (ex: run to tell the on-call surgeon that a GDV is en route) unless you want to get verbally eviscerated.

I had to gently tell the rotatings to stop giving me a "heads up" about exotics coming in during my specialty internship.

Just led to me stressing and half the time they never showed up, probably half that did were way later than anticipated, and a handful of the rest they didn't need me for anyway.

 

[WildZoo]

Man, if I had a dime for every time I had to speak with an MD/DO/other human hospital-type person to tell them that 1) no, we do not have a rhino-sized CT scan and 2) even if we did, we can't practice human medicine out of this facility, I might have a few dollars at this point.

Just had to talk in circles with an MD from the nearby hospital who insisted it was possible that we CT his bariatic patient who is on a ventilator. Like he was literally telling me he knows we do it "all the time." I truly don't know how that rumor started, I know all zoos get these calls. Vet med reuses ET tubes for decades and they think we have special massive CT scanners? lol

This was brought up in an offhand way on a recent episode of The Pitt and I just chuckled because...yeah. We've got secondhand human equipment most of the time, guys, our CT is worse than yours, I promise.

 

[finnickthedog]

Dont mind me. Just going on my fourth day of feeling like garbage. Missed two days of work. I'm technically "recovering" at this point but I've got a painful cough and lingering congestion impeding my sleep and tomorrow I'm back to work.