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Cowboy hats and CPR: Why human medicine ain't my rodeo
As a performance animal veterinarian, Ive learned that if you get thrown from a bull, you have to get up and get back onunless 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 theres a rodeo in Lamesa, Texas. Its 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 Lamesaeven competed myselfbut I dont go anymore.
See, I love being a veterinarian and its 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 didnt 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 okaysave 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, Ive learned that if you get thrown from a bull, you have to get up and get back onunless 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 theres a rodeo in Lamesa, Texas. Its 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 Lamesaeven competed myselfbut I dont go anymore.
See, I love being a veterinarian and its 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 didnt 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 okaysave for when I get called out of the stands to come have a look at an animal.
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Cowboy hats and 'CPR': Why human medicine ain't my rodeo (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Aug 2019
OP
I don't go to rodeos or any other equine event but for a different reason than Dr. Brocks. I
in2herbs
Aug 2019
#1
Lamesa is wonderful little city, been there a lot, just north of San Angelo.
marble falls
Aug 2019
#5
Baxter Black another "large animal veternarian", he used to do pieces on NPR ...
marble falls
Aug 2019
#6
in2herbs
(2,944 posts)1. I don't go to rodeos or any other equine event but for a different reason than Dr. Brocks. I
see the way the horses are shod, fed, and treated and there is no way to not know that they need a vet. I like the leisurely way he writes, good reading for a lazy day. Thanks for posting.
yonder
(9,654 posts)2. That's a funny story there. I've a veterinarian friend. He hates rodeos too.
Nitram
(22,755 posts)3. How do they know he's a veterinarian?
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,283 posts)4. It's Lamesa, Texas, population ... probably not too many. NT
marble falls
(56,996 posts)5. Lamesa is wonderful little city, been there a lot, just north of San Angelo.
marble falls
(56,996 posts)6. Baxter Black another "large animal veternarian", he used to do pieces on NPR ...
here's a link to one of his radio commentaries
https://www.baxterblack.com/radio