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Caiter92 said:
Make sure you *67 that ****. You’re gonna get phone calls at like 2 am otherwise :laugh:
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Lupin21 said:
OMG. I certainly hope they know to do that. :scared:
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Oh yes, of course. If anyone takes their cellphone out of their pocket to call a client, everyone within sight will shout "SIXTY SEVEN! DON'T FORGET!"
 
It's like yall are psychic. We were talking about giving numbers out to clients on sunday. One clinician does it and another has only done it twice and surely regretted it.
 
As a student I gave my number to owners of a few select long-term inpatients because it was easier to text a morning update to the owner and they preferred that too because I could send a photo. They didn’t abuse it, but I also didn’t do that for everyone. I didn’t do that as an intern though, haha.
 
I've been *67ing all our clients and it's funny because none of them answer the blocked number the first time, so I have to leave a message and tell them I'm calling back in five minutes and to please pick up. One client's phone didn't ring at all if a blocked number called them (how do you get this setting on your phone?). Since I'm on clinics now I've just been calling from the service phone and it's been easier because they'll at least answer it.
 
vetmedhead said:
I've been *67ing all our clients and it's funny because none of them answer the blocked number the first time, so I have to leave a message and tell them I'm calling back in five minutes and to please pick up. One client's phone didn't ring at all if a blocked number called them (how do you get this setting on your phone?). Since I'm on clinics now I've just been calling from the service phone and it's been easier because they'll at least answer it.
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Agree this is why burner phones became necessary. haha so many people don't know how to turn off blocked call screen
 
Caiter92 said:
Ha I figured they knew but it’s easily to forget when it’s crazy.

I forgot to do that once 4th year with a very over the top client. They literally called me 6 times in a ten minute period. So much regret :laugh:
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I always just called them through the operators desk. That way it came from a campus related number and it would still conceal my phone number, even if I did it from my cell!
 
vetmedhead said:
I've been *67ing all our clients and it's funny because none of them answer the blocked number the first time, so I have to leave a message and tell them I'm calling back in five minutes and to please pick up. One client's phone didn't ring at all if a blocked number called them (how do you get this setting on your phone?). Since I'm on clinics now I've just been calling from the service phone and it's been easier because they'll at least answer it.
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How do you get them to listen to the messages? I want to learn this magic. I end up repeating myself too many times.
 
genny said:
How do you get them to listen to the messages? I want to learn this magic. I end up repeating myself too many times.
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I want to know as well. Have yet to hear a single person start a call with "I got your message..." It's always "I saw you called me." "Did you listen to the voicemail?" "Uh, no." Thank you, now I need to put you on hold to find your record to see what the message said and/or hunt down the vet themselves if they didn't type it yet. Instead of you just listening to the message and not wasting anyone's time.
 
I left a message for a client once and forgot to *67 (I actually forgot this for like the first 2 weeks of my first rotation). They did listen to my message.... sort of. They got scared because I used the word "abdominal" and they thought that meant something was wrong even though I said like 3 different times that their pet was doing well and everything looked normal.
 
My least favorite thing I have learned during curbside service is that there is a subset of people who have no idea how to talk on the phone. I don't know how they never learned this skill, but when they answer their phone, they don't say anything. All I hear is sudden silence because the ringing stopped. So I ask "hello?" And they usually say "yes." Never a hello back, it's "yes" or "uh huh" or "k". This is a way I never would have imagined a phone conversation starting, and yet this happens to me multiple times in a week.
 
genny said:
My least favorite thing I have learned during curbside service is that there is a subset of people who have no idea how to talk on the phone. I don't know how they never learned this skill, but when they answer their phone, they don't say anything. All I hear is sudden silence because the ringing stopped. So I ask "hello?" And they usually say "yes." Never a hello back, it's "yes" or "uh huh" or "k". This is a way I never would have imagined a phone conversation starting, and yet this happens to me multiple times in a week.
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YES. The first few things it happened I was like okay maybe I just didn’t hear them... nope happens a lot. JUST SAY HI PEOPLE.
 
Aprilthearab said:
I want to know as well. Have yet to hear a single person start a call with "I got your message..." It's always "I saw you called me." "Did you listen to the voicemail?" "Uh, no." Thank you, now I need to put you on hold to find your record to see what the message said and/or hunt down the vet themselves if they didn't type it yet. Instead of you just listening to the message and not wasting anyone's time.
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Sometimes my phone doesn’t tell me I have a voicemail for a week. It’s great :dead:
 
batsenecal said:
It's like yall are psychic. We were talking about giving numbers out to clients on sunday. One clinician does it and another has only done it twice and surely regretted it.
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I’ve only given my number to exactly 2 clients and they do not abuse it. They’re super amazing clients that will do anything for their pets, very loyal and respectful of me, and their pets have a lot going on and any questions going to another doctor would take a long time to figure out and they would contact me anyways. So I just cut out the phone merry go round by just giving my number to these clients. Half the time they’ll wait to call me until I’m in the office, and I’m like “why didn’t you just text me on Sunday? That’s why I gave you my number!!!”
 
On the other had I have some bad awful suck your soul clients that I dig very defined lines in the sand for. Some that I almost never will personally call back because if I do, they will insist on not speaking to anyone but me and will leave annoying messages daily and expect a call back and keep me on the phone daily. They are told they need to leave a detailed message with the tech or make an appointment if they feel it has to be addressed by me. If a tech takes the message (cause these people are a pain in the ass and will never pay the exam fee), then unless I choose to call them they get a call back from the tech. No other choice. If they really feel like they need to talk to me about something truly medical about their pet but it is soooo not urgent, then they’re told I will call them when I have time but it might be a few days. And I make them wait those few days.

some clients are so bad I don’t even allow them to email me at my personal clinic email. It has to go through the front desk email.
 
Minnerbelle said:
One of the clinics I frequent uses burner cellphones for this purpose, might be something to consider. Sounds like it would be totally worth it. Have maybe 2 for the techs to have to call and take histories.
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My clinic does this too!
 
genny said:
How do you get them to listen to the messages? I want to learn this magic. I end up repeating myself too many times.
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Yeah I don't think I've ever had a client listen to a message ever. And then sometimes they call back wanting an update like they haven't heard anything all day and I'm like 😢
 
We were talking about another funny phone behavior thing yesterday, one of my co-workers was returning a call to a client who had left very little detail in the message except that they wanted a call from a vet. But when she called the client acted like it was us that had something to tell them, and she had to remind them multiple times that they had called us :laugh:
 
genny said:
How do you get them to listen to the messages? I want to learn this magic. I end up repeating myself too many times.
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Convince them all the sign up for voicemail to text service? I haven't listened to a voicemail in years but still get all the info transcribed as a text message and it makes me soooo happy.
 
Here’s a spam one I got the other week telling me about my consumers energy bill that I do not have.
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SkiOtter said:
I have no idea. It’s called visual voicemail though. It shows up when you click a voicemail in your voicemail box
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Wild. My phone doesn't have that option but I'm also at least 6 phone generations behind the newest one :whistle:
 
SARdoghandler said:
That article where the vet got assaulted finally made it to the local dog group. I knew better and I shouldn't have clicked on the comments but I did and I regret everything.
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NEVER READ THE COMMENTS if you’re emotionally invested in the topic.

Always read the comments if you don’t care. It’s hilarious how stupid people can be.
 
twelvetigers said:
My 6S did it for sure. I had that puppy up until a year ago... still worked but my husband wanted a new phone and somehow it worked better as a bundle.
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I'm still rocking a 5S! Maybe one of my study breaks today will be doing more research into whether I can make it do this.
 
While there are many joys of being a fat woman in professional school, my favorite is being required to wear/ purchase branded clothing through the school’s vendors who don’t carry your actual size and apparently don’t carry the size you ordered either.

I’ll keep the two-sizes-too-small white jacket I was given for “free.” The perennially indignant and quarrelsome part of my soul loves a good piece of unintentional symbolism. Maybe I’ll offer up some juicy commentary the next time my school has a seminar discussing microaggressions.
 
Jess Monster said:
While there are many joys of being a fat woman in professional school, my favorite is being required to wear/ purchase branded clothing through the school’s vendors who don’t carry your actual size and apparently don’t carry the size you ordered either.

I’ll keep the two-sizes-too-small white jacket I was given for “free.” The perennially indignant and quarrelsome part of my soul loves a good piece of unintentional symbolism. Maybe I’ll offer up some juicy commentary the next time my school has a seminar discussing microaggressions.
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That sucks. Sorry you have to deal with that. It was a bit embarrassing during my transition ceremony that mine and a classmate's coats got switched and I am quite small and she is average, but her trying to get my jacket on didn't go smoothly. Not horribly to where she couldn't get it on, but enough to make it awkward. I tried to say something as I came off stage that the one the put on me was not mine, but it was too late to find out what went wrong. 🙁
 
And today can suck it. Two heat stroke dogs that one I am not hopeful she will make it as she is sloughing all her GI lining and already had renal and hepatic damage plus low glucose and prolonged clotting times, another DOA. Neuro cat with no vax history bit employee and you know what happened there, plus all the crazy that is the current vet med GP climate when we also act as daytime er. I am thankful for my lemon vodka iced tea currently at my side. 🙁
 
Jess Monster said:
While there are many joys of being a fat woman in professional school, my favorite is being required to wear/ purchase branded clothing through the school’s vendors who don’t carry your actual size and apparently don’t carry the size you ordered either.

I’ll keep the two-sizes-too-small white jacket I was given for “free.” The perennially indignant and quarrelsome part of my soul loves a good piece of unintentional symbolism. Maybe I’ll offer up some juicy commentary the next time my school has a seminar discussing microaggressions.
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Ugh I know this feeling too. So many things our school provides (esp lab coats and our clinic coats/smocks) are cut for slim women and it really doesn't work for people who aren't in that body type irrespective of weight. I've been losing weight recently and getting into sizes that the school at least carries, so you'd think things would fit at least a little better, but I'm mostly just discovering that even when the rest of the jacket fits me better it still wasn't cut for someone even remotely busty, so I can either have a jacket that is gigantic everywhere but fits my chest or that fits everywhere but won't close
 
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Jess Monster said:
While there are many joys of being a fat woman in professional school, my favorite is being required to wear/ purchase branded clothing through the school’s vendors who don’t carry your actual size and apparently don’t carry the size you ordered either.

I’ll keep the two-sizes-too-small white jacket I was given for “free.” The perennially indignant and quarrelsome part of my soul loves a good piece of unintentional symbolism. Maybe I’ll offer up some juicy commentary the next time my school has a seminar discussing microaggressions.
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I haven't had too much trouble with official school things like the white coats but when a club or something is selling shirts, I rarely see my size as an option and I'm just like... oh, okay then, guess I can't buy anything. It's not a huge deal, but it does bothers me a little.
 
vetmedhead said:
Ugh I know this feeling too. So many things our school provides (esp lab coats and our clinic coats/smocks) are cut for slim women and it really doesn't work for people who aren't in that body type irrespective of weight. I've been losing weight recently and getting into sizes that the school at least carries, so you'd think things would fit at least a little better, but I'm mostly just discovering that even when the rest of the jacket fits me better it still wasn't cut for someone even remotely busty, so I can either have a jacket that is gigantic everywhere but fits my chest or that fits everywhere but won't close
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This is the first year my school is requiring students to wear the emblemed jackets in clinics and future years will have to wear the scrubs as well. When they first announced these changes, I was vocal about my concerns and doubts. After all, I’m in my 30’s and I’ve spent years purchasing plus size medical clothing and know how hard it is to find items. My concerns were summarily dismissed because the school “had thought about those challenges.”

To make things comical, when I went in to try on jacket samples months ago, I made comments about the jacket not fitting and being skeptical about whether the next larger size would fit (they didn’t have a sample to try on). In the pre-COVID era, we wouldn’t see the jackets again until the white coat ceremony and I didn’t want to get on stage and find out that the jacket was still too small. I was met with what I like to describe as reflexive mall girl comments, like “no, that dress totally doesn’t make you look fat.” Super unhelpful. Next, when I asked for the sizing chart, I was told they didn’t have one. After all this, they still didn’t give me the size I ordered. (Fair disclosure, this is not the first time the school has tried to give me smaller clothing items than I have requested.)

What I find most annoying in all of this, other than having my completely valid concerns regularly dismissed, is that I have plain white jackets that fit me and now, when I get into my on-site rotations, I have to wonder if some dress code dick is going to lay into me for not wearing the “right” jacket.


finnickthedog said:
I haven't had too much trouble with official school things like the white coats but when a club or something is selling shirts, I rarely see my size as an option and I'm just like... oh, okay then, guess I can't buy anything. It's not a huge deal, but it does bothers me a little.
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This is one of the reasons I worked as a merchandise chair for multiple clubs. At least then I could choose products with a wide array of sizes. It went over well too. Some club members would end up buying shirts for parents, family, and friends who normally would never get clothing items because most clubs max out at an XL (frequently an XL that runs really small).
 
Jess Monster said:
This is the first year my school is requiring students to wear the emblemed jackets in clinics and future years will have to wear the scrubs as well. When they first announced these changes, I was vocal about my concerns and doubts. After all, I’m in my 30’s and I’ve spent years purchasing plus size medical clothing and know how hard it is to find items. My concerns were summarily dismissed because the school “had thought about those challenges.”

To make things comical, when I went in to try on jacket samples months ago, I made comments about the jacket not fitting and being skeptical about whether the next larger size would fit (they didn’t have a sample to try on). In the pre-COVID era, we wouldn’t see the jackets again until the white coat ceremony and I didn’t want to get on stage and find out that the jacket was still too small. I was met with what I like to describe as reflexive mall girl comments, like “no, that dress totally doesn’t make you look fat.” Super unhelpful. Next, when I asked for the sizing chart, I was told they didn’t have one. After all this, they still didn’t give me the size I ordered. (Fair disclosure, this is not the first time the school has tried to give me smaller clothing items than I have requested.)

What I find most annoying in all of this, other than having my completely valid concerns regularly dismissed, is that I have plain white jackets that fit me and now, when I get into my on-site rotations, I have to wonder if some dress code dick is going to lay into me for not wearing the “right” jacket.




This is one of the reasons I worked as a merchandise chair for multiple clubs. At least then I could choose products with a wide array of sizes. It went over well too. Some club members would end up buying shirts for parents, family, and friends who normally would never get clothing items because most clubs max out at an XL (frequently an XL that runs really small).
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Just keep being vocal about it. Do you have others that can speak up with you? Power in numbers and all that. There is no reason that emblem can't be put on a jacket of your choosing. I was super thankful OKState allowed us to pick our own jackets and they paid for the embroidery.
 
Jess Monster said:
What I find most annoying in all of this, other than having my completely valid concerns regularly dismissed, is that I have plain white jackets that fit me and now, when I get into my on-site rotations, I have to wonder if some dress code dick is going to lay into me for not wearing the “right” jacket.
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Yeah I would just wear whatever fits you well and if they are all up in your business about it, just simply state that the school did not offer a size that fit. There’s really not much they can say to that.
 
This was the week for my surgeries to have complications! 2 scrotal hematomas, a spay that got her interdermals out and then today an abscess along the suture line of another spay 😵 2 of the surgeries I did some time ago, the other 2 I just did in the past week. my clinic doesn’t routinely give out cones, and one of the neutered straight up admitted to me she let the dog chase squirrels while he was healing so I do feel a bit better about it but geez that seems like a lot.
 
itsrocky said:
This was the week for my surgeries to have complications! 2 scrotal hematomas, a spay that got her interdermals out and then today an abscess along the suture line of another spay 😵 2 of the surgeries I did some time ago, the other 2 I just did in the past week. my clinic doesn’t routinely give out cones, and one of the neutered straight up admitted to me she let the dog chase squirrels while he was healing so I do feel a bit better about it but geez that seems like a lot.
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Not that many if they aren't in e-collars, more surprised there haven't been more.

Animals lick, healing itches, they chew/lick in response. I almost crafted mini e-collars for my hands when I was healing from my appendectomy years ago.
 
DVMDream said:
Not that many if they aren't in e-collars, more surprised there haven't been more.

Animals lick, healing itches, they chew/lick in response. I almost crafted mini e-collars for my hands when I was healing from my appendectomy years ago.
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I had to put socks on my hands after I had my arm surgery last year! It's so hard to leave incisions alone
 
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