>> My name is Dr. Kristin Cody [phonetic] and I'm a veterinarian.
On a daily basis I have animal patients that come in.
I tend to work 10 to 12 hour days and see appointments every half hour which can consist
of wellness visits, which is basically just routine physical examine,
doing routine blood work vaccines.
And then there's also people that bring in their sick patients for treatment and diagnostics.
And we have animals that come in that have been hit by a car or they're just sick
and they're lethargic and they're laying around
or they're vomiting, and the owners don't know why.
A lot of skin cases where they're very itchy or have skin infections
or they're itching at their ears.
So basically we just have to do a physical exam, offer different testing options
and then different treatment options.
We also do surgery, too.
About one day a week I do surgery which is usually spaying or neutering
or removing masses, that sort of thing.
Dentistry, dentistry is big, too.
We'll have dogs and cats that have horrible teeth, so that's one of the things we try
to educate clients that come in, just preventative medicine in keeping
up with brushing their animal's teeth which a lot of people haven't heard of.
Just giving them like flea preventative, heart worm preventative and just doing all
that preventative work to make our jobs easier and the animals that we see healthier.
The travel that we do is usually first CE work which is continuing education.
So about once a year we try to go to different conferences that are sometimes out of state.
They have some that are out of country.
Some of them are local so that would be the travel.
Large animals veterinarians do a lot of travel day to day.
They pretty much spend the whole day in the truck and go to different farms
so they travel more on a day-to-day basis.