I am one of the emergency doctors that are here at friendship we have a lot of veterinarians there's a lot of veterinarians like me who primarily just do the emergency side of things you have all these departments dermatology in radiology and on college I mean there is a lot with animals that you know I guess when you call it an Animal Hospital this one really is yes so as medicine continues to improve the demand and the quality of medicine begins to improve as well and so those services are available you know even 2530 years ago
maybe some of the same interventions that we could have done for our people wasn't available at a time and now it is for dogs and cats and so we routinely give things like blood transfusions and chemotherapy we we even have placed pacemakers in in in dogs which is such an amazing to be a part of so that our dogs and cats can live longer dr. clippin how did you become a veterinarian well as the long road I loved working with animals even as a little girl you know volunteering at the shelter as well as kind
of some of the rescue things with my Girl Scouts troops and so it kind of was second nature to kind of come into this field I come from a family of nurses and so caregiving was all around me and it was something that I felt very strongly about did you have animals in the home growing up I did I had quite a few in fact my mom and I think back of the dozens and dozens and try to come up with all the names to see how well our memories are working what made you choose
to go the emergency medicine route I am one of those people that is a one junkie and so the the fear of the unknown of things that are coming in the door I actually get quite a rush thrill of you it is it is absolutely the thrill the unknown because I'm seeing very very sick patients and patients that probably may not survive and when I have the ability to help them and make them survive and leave the hospital to be with their families is such an intense rush that it makes me keep doing this it's
very clean very in order it feels like I mean it's a hospital absolutely absolutely we have every every specialty the same that you would get if you were to go to a human Hospital and I mean taking such tender care of the doggies I mean who are you know they don't always know what's going on and I always wonder that with veterinarians they don't always know what's happening and you have to somehow reassure them how do you do it well a lot of a lot of it is learning as you go in regards to body
language and knowing when an animal looks frightened or potentially can be in pain because they don't give the same sort of cues that you or I would and so that's important information that you begin to get a knack of as you continue to practice the way you describe your path to this job isn't like many of us or we just sort of poked and prodded here and let's see where I end up it's more of a vocation that sounds like for you I think that it's totally a labor of love you know you know veterinary
medicine it's hard we we work long hours it we it's a very physical profession as well you know a human doctor a medical doctor it's not getting on the floor in odd positions to examine their patients and so it's hard on the body so it truly is a labor of love why all of us do it when someone comes to you and I'm sure young people do quite often and say I want to be a veterinarian I want to I want to wear that coat and I want to treat these dogs or cats what's the
best advice you always give up I will never dissuade anyone from becoming a veterinarian because I have had so many experience and I've had a lot of fun in my career but I also know the challenges of getting to where I am today as well as preparing for the financial burden through accept the extended amount of schooling that's taking I do believe that there is a lot of sadness that comes along with it that's kind of where emotional intelligence as well as having the ability to go home to someone that that you love whether it's
your own furry animal whether it's your small child with it's a spouse or somebody else bonding with a owner is very important and I may only have minutes to be able to do that and I have to have your care as well as your trust that I am going to do what what's best for your pet and so it does become treatment of not only the patient but sometimes the family as well
