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>> My job, on a daily basis, is to show up for a
shift type work and so I come in and then I need

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to be able to see whatever walks in the door.

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As things walk in the door, they're either
triage, which means that they are critical

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and they need to come to the back area of the
hospital where we can immediately assess them

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and treat them or they go into an exam room.

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Any examination typically
starts with a temperature

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and a weight and those are really important.

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We will get if they're running a fever,
we'll look at if they have lost weight

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or gained weight, but then I usually
start nose and go to the tail

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and that's most veterinarians do their exam
and so the animal you look at the nose,

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you look at the eyes, you look at the
back of the eyes, you look in the ears,

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you look at the teeth, in the mouth, under
the tongue, at the very back of the mouth,

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then you go ahead and you feel the
throat and then you keep going from there

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and then typically from there I kind of
check under the arms and the front arms

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and then go toward the heart and the lungs and
that's where you listen with your stethoscope

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and then go from there to the belly and
feel the belly, feel along the back,

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make sure that there's no areas of discomfort.

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Check all the areas of the skin because
animals have thick fur and you kind of have

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to look closely to see what's going on
at the level of the skin and then go

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on back towards the tail and the hind legs
and check the knees, check hips, check toes,

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check pads, check nails, and then that's
typically how I go a do an exam all the

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way through.

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It's a challenging profession.

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So you're never bored.

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I've never met anyone who's bored with this job.

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You don't just show up and do the
same thing over and over every day

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and then also I think it has a lot
to over as far as different types

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of things we do within the profession.