>> My job, on a daily basis, is to show up for a shift type work and so I come in and then I need
to be able to see whatever walks in the door.
As things walk in the door, they're either triage, which means that they are critical
and they need to come to the back area of the hospital where we can immediately assess them
and treat them or they go into an exam room.
Any examination typically starts with a temperature
and a weight and those are really important.
We will get if they're running a fever, we'll look at if they have lost weight
or gained weight, but then I usually start nose and go to the tail
and that's most veterinarians do their exam and so the animal you look at the nose,
you look at the eyes, you look at the back of the eyes, you look in the ears,
you look at the teeth, in the mouth, under the tongue, at the very back of the mouth,
then you go ahead and you feel the throat and then you keep going from there
and then typically from there I kind of check under the arms and the front arms
and then go toward the heart and the lungs and that's where you listen with your stethoscope
and then go from there to the belly and feel the belly, feel along the back,
make sure that there's no areas of discomfort.
Check all the areas of the skin because animals have thick fur and you kind of have
to look closely to see what's going on at the level of the skin and then go
on back towards the tail and the hind legs and check the knees, check hips, check toes,
check pads, check nails, and then that's typically how I go a do an exam all the
way through.
It's a challenging profession.
So you're never bored.
I've never met anyone who's bored with this job.
You don't just show up and do the same thing over and over every day
and then also I think it has a lot to over as far as different types
of things we do within the profession.