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Cowboy hats and 'CPR': Why human medicine ain't my rodeo
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Cowboy hats and ‘CPR’: Why human medicine ain't my rodeo
As a performance animal veterinarian, I’ve learned that if you get thrown from a bull, you have to get up and get back on—unless that bull decides to land on you. Then you have to roll around and scream in pain.
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Aug 08, 2019
By Bo Brock, DVM
DVM360 MAGAZINE
Find out how cowboy hats are (not really) part of CPR protocol. (tribalium81/stock.adobe.com)
Every year there’s a rodeo in Lamesa, Texas. It’s a fairly big deal, lasting four nights and featuring local talent as well as circuit cowboys and cowgirls. I went a few years when we first moved to Lamesa—even competed myself—but I don’t go anymore.
See, I love being a veterinarian and it’s a great job for me. But every time I go to a rodeo, swarms of people pull me over and want to tell me a story about something wrong with their horse or how something I did to their horse 15 years ago didn’t work. I guess I sound like an old bitter vet, but believe me when I say it can go too far. At the second-to-last rodeo we attended, my wife counted 26 people who approached us with horse questions. Still, that'd be okay—save for when I get called out of the stands to come have a look at an animal.
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As a performance animal veterinarian, I’ve learned that if you get thrown from a bull, you have to get up and get back on—unless that bull decides to land on you. Then you have to roll around and scream in pain.
source-image
Aug 08, 2019
By Bo Brock, DVM
DVM360 MAGAZINE
Find out how cowboy hats are (not really) part of CPR protocol. (tribalium81/stock.adobe.com)
Every year there’s a rodeo in Lamesa, Texas. It’s a fairly big deal, lasting four nights and featuring local talent as well as circuit cowboys and cowgirls. I went a few years when we first moved to Lamesa—even competed myself—but I don’t go anymore.
See, I love being a veterinarian and it’s a great job for me. But every time I go to a rodeo, swarms of people pull me over and want to tell me a story about something wrong with their horse or how something I did to their horse 15 years ago didn’t work. I guess I sound like an old bitter vet, but believe me when I say it can go too far. At the second-to-last rodeo we attended, my wife counted 26 people who approached us with horse questions. Still, that'd be okay—save for when I get called out of the stands to come have a look at an animal.
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