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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

How to give a horse his eye medications, or, What is an SPL?

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One of my patients on my Large Animal Medicine rotation had a very sick eye, for which he needed approximately 9187346 medications every few...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Shelter medicine externship

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I recently spent two weeks of elective time at a shelter medicine externship at a different vet school. Half the time was spent in academic ...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

$200 worth of oops

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This Saturday I was “on duty” in the large animal hospital, meaning that I was in the hospital for about 12 hours, theoretically helping wit...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

That is what is known as irony

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I knew I would leave something behind in the town five hours from home where I did my shelter medicine externship. It was just a question of...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Do not kidnap wild animal babies!

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Since spring is upon us, at least in my part of the world, I offer a public service announcement: do not kidnap wild animal babies! If you s...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

He’s a lover, not a fighter: outreach for the prevention of dog fighting

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[This is the presentation I gave at a shelter staff meeting this week, as part of my shelter medicine externship.] How can we redirect in...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

The Purebred Paradox, part four: What can be done?

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(Continued from part three .) Below are my musings on some of the talks at the recent conference, The Purebred Paradox: on the health and ...
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Jessica Perry Hekman, DVM, PhD is fascinated by dog brains. She is a postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she studies the genetics of dog behavior. Her interests include the stress response in mammals, canine behavior, canine domestication, shelter medicine, animal welfare, and open access publishing. You may learn more about Jessica at www.dogzombie.com, or email her at jph at dogzombie dot com. All opinions expressed here are her own.
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