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He's a good guy. A veterinarian is someone who medically takes care of animals, and so
we treat disease, sicknesses of all types, and prevention--preventative medicine--such
as vaccination, to prevent things such as vial disease, such as Parvo virus in puppies
and respiratory diseases in cats. And so there's a tremendous amount of preventative medicine
as well as when animals become sick and ill. And so we treat them and get them back as
well as possible so they can live happy, normal, long lives. The veterinarian's job responsibilities
are to basically communicate with owners, you know the problems that we are seeing,
because obviously animals can't talk for themselves, and so somebody has to represent them. And
we have to have good communication skills to discuss what we think is going on and how
we best think to treat them or, as far as preventative medicine is concerned too, what
owners can do at home to take care of their animals and to ensure a long, happy life.
There can be multiple day to day types of veterinarian activities. The general practice
veterinarian, which I am, will come in and see patients throughout the day...appointments...
sometimes emergencies come in, which are always challenging... and then also surgery. So a
big part of the veterinarian's skills involve doing surgery so you may spend most of day
doing spays and neuters, preventative types of things like that, or doing medicine--internal
medicine--and seeing appointments and treating sick and well patients both. Veterinarians
in this field, in general practice, are the same thing in human medicine that are general
practitioners, or GPs in the human medical field. And so, we kind of treat the gambit,
and that is you... the GP is kind of cornered into small animal, or large animal, or mixed.
And so some people see everything. I personally see exotics and small animals. So the same
goes for a general practitioner in human medicine, in that they kind of see everything that comes
through the door, and when there's something that needs more specialized medicine, that
may go out to a specialist. And the same goes for us--we have specialists in all different
fields in veterinary medicine that we turn to if we are getting kind of over our heads,
that is.