Life in a mixed animal practice is never boring. The original agreement up on hiring was to do equine (horse) work during the day, but have to rotate emergency service with all the doctors (there are 6 of us total). The other part of the original agreement was that I wouldn't have to start doing emergency work for a month so that I could get used to the system here. Of course the best intended plans never quite work that way. So 2 weeks after starting, I get emergency duty for the first time.
My very first emergency call:
Answersing service: Hi Dr. G, this is the answering service. I have a call about a pig in distress.
Me: Uh! A pig?!? Ok, what's their number...
AS: XXX-XXXX
Me: OK thanks...
Ringing phone...
Me: Hi, this is Dr. G from BVC.. I got a call about a pig?!?!? What's going on?
Client: My sow (adult female pig) has been in labor for a couple of days, but hasn't had any of her babies yet? Can we bring her in for a C-Section?
Me: silence ___ uh sure?!? Let me call you back..
Me calling more experienced in pig dystocia doctor....He recommended a couple of shots for the pig, instead of surgery...
Just barely avoided a pig c-section as my very first emergency call...
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Giggling....mostly because my first night of general surgery call when I got out of training is still VERY fresh in my mind.
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I, too, am laughing because my first week on the job -- on Saturday when we don't have full staff, in fact, I had a pig dystocia. I had to take the high school help and try to pull piglets. I had the smallest arms. I was wearing a yellow scrub shirt -- very bad idea. I got the piglet out after about 30 minutes and didn't have to do a c-section (still haven't done a pig c-section)but had to see small animals and horses the rest of the day smelling like a pig and covered in sow placental fluid. Good times.
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