{"id":653549,"date":"2024-09-20T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catster.com\/?p=653549"},"modified":"2024-09-18T14:59:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T18:59:58","slug":"things-ive-been-wrong-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catster.com\/felines-weekly\/things-ive-been-wrong-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I’ve Been Wrong About (And I’m Not Too Proud to Admit)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, I\u2019m Dr. Karyn!\u00a0Read my introduction<\/a>\u00a0to learn more about me and meet my five hilarious cats: Clutch, Cyril, Alex, Zelda, and Zazzles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day\u2019s a school day\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

This is something that seems to be more true the older I get. When I first graduated from vet school, I was petrified. Yesterday I was a student, today I am expected to be able to diagnose, treat, and operate on any creature that walks (or is carried) through the door. In reality, most newly graduated vets are allowed to paddle in the shallows for the first few months, but I know plenty that were thrown headfirst into the deep end, their bosses delighted to be able to hand over their night duties to their wide-eyed new employee.<\/p>\n

After a few years, I was feeling more confident – perhaps too confident – acquiring the swagger of an experienced vet who\u2019s seen it all, which of course, I hadn\u2019t. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I wasn\u2019t some pompous, cocky clinician, but I did reach a point in my career where I felt like I could handle pretty much everything that came into the veterinary hospital; specialist cases being the exception.<\/p>\n

In more recent years, I have reached a point where I feel comfortable enough in my experience to accept that I can\u2019t possibly \u2018know it all\u2019, and there is always more to learn.<\/p>\n

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Every day’s a school day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Corporate Control<\/h2>\n

Interestingly, it has only been since I started stepping back from clinical practice and into a role where I am providing information to a wider audience on a huge range of topics, that I have come to realize how much my patient diagnostics, treatment, and management options were guided or influenced from afar by the corporate giants that control a vast majority of the pet care industry. And this influence started back in vet school.<\/p>\n

While I don\u2019t feel that this has resulted in poor outcomes or suboptimal patient care, I have become more aware of how large companies have started to subtly steer the direction of certain aspects of veterinary care.<\/p>\n

Lectures, training courses, and scientific studies sponsored by the companies that sell pet food, pharmaceuticals, and diagnostic tests, are common features of both veterinary education and practice, and it\u2019s hard to believe that there was a complete lack of bias in the information they provided.<\/p>\n

Does this product\/drug\/food\/test\/equipment give excellent results?\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n