Vet Stress University of Chicago job satisfaction study: Where do vets rank in job satisfaction?

The answer: somewhere in the middle and, increasingly, closer to the bottom. This week, the University of Chicago reported results of its most recent study on job satisfaction. Clergy and artists came out first…waiters and bartenders dead last. Human docs? Somewhere in the middle, despite their...

April 22nd, 2007 3 Comments

Vet School 101 Bloat in dogs: every large breed owner’s worst nightmare…and mine, too

Do you have a large or giant breed dog? Then you should know that bloat (aka, gastric dilatation-volvulus) is a surgical emergency worthy of any gut-wrenching Emergency Vets episode.

Great Danes, Wolfhounds, German shepherds, Dobermans, Labs and other deep-chested large breeds (including mixed...

April 22nd, 2007 13 Comments