Couldn’t agree more. Veterinary medicine gives us the ability to reinvent ourselves as many times as we want.
During my residency and periodically since, it was not encouraged to dabble in what wasn’t your specialty. For example, hardly could we touch an ultrasound probe or a endoscope. The great irony is in the real world, animals need ultrasounds, echoes and foreign bodies out in places where there isn’t a specialist doing just that. So alas, we must reinvent (or just invent for the first time?) by necessity even if the stigma of doing what you’re not trained to do has been etched in by our colleagues during our earlier training. I for one would be delighted if a cardiologist wanted to read a blood gas. I wish they’d be equally delighted when I tried a little bit of what they do. Maybe diversity includes this too?
That’s a great point, Medora! In the vet world, criticalists are some of the broadest trained specialists out of necessity, with many doing surgery, ultrasounds, cytology and more. I wish we saw more of that!
What fun to discover colleagues on substack (I'm kinda new here ..)! I'm a veterinarian specialized in regulatory toxicology & European Union regulatory affairs. 🙂❤️🙂
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Couldn’t agree more. Veterinary medicine gives us the ability to reinvent ourselves as many times as we want.
During my residency and periodically since, it was not encouraged to dabble in what wasn’t your specialty. For example, hardly could we touch an ultrasound probe or a endoscope. The great irony is in the real world, animals need ultrasounds, echoes and foreign bodies out in places where there isn’t a specialist doing just that. So alas, we must reinvent (or just invent for the first time?) by necessity even if the stigma of doing what you’re not trained to do has been etched in by our colleagues during our earlier training. I for one would be delighted if a cardiologist wanted to read a blood gas. I wish they’d be equally delighted when I tried a little bit of what they do. Maybe diversity includes this too?
That’s a great point, Medora! In the vet world, criticalists are some of the broadest trained specialists out of necessity, with many doing surgery, ultrasounds, cytology and more. I wish we saw more of that!
What fun to discover colleagues on substack (I'm kinda new here ..)! I'm a veterinarian specialized in regulatory toxicology & European Union regulatory affairs. 🙂❤️🙂
Awesome! Very nice to meet you, I hope you enjoy my posts 😊 If there are any specific topics you'd like to see me explore, feel free to leave a comment or email with them!