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Martin Atkinson — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:19:47 GMT

[quote user="Gerry Henry"]

Which St Martin, St Martin of Tours or St Martin De Porres?

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Erm... I see there's several people replied on my behalf who clearly have a greater level of knowledge than me but I'll have to ask the vicar when she next brings her cat in which may be a while as I euthanased the last one several years ago!

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Mark Holmes — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:07:41 GMT

[quote user="Evelyn Barbour-Hill"]

[quote user="Gerry Henry"]

Which St Martin, St Martin of Tours or St Martin De Porres?

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Martin de Porres is the one who healed animals.

Martin de Tours is the better-known one who cut his military cloak in half and gave half to a shivering beggar.

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Both of those could apply to being a vet in my experience.

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Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:04:37 GMT

Well, I don't hold deep religious beliefs, but I do have respect for those that do. Unlike Japanese tourists

You don't have to be a Christian to find deep interest and fascination in the accumulated culture of the Christian faith, or any other faith for that matter.

As for those who do hold deep religious beliefs, they are used to superficial piss-taking I imagine, and Christians at any rate are supposed to shrug it off.

Whoa. Does this post qualify me for idiot of the day? Ah well, it's written now.

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Bob Russell — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:45:02 GMT

A true saint would have given the beggar the whole cloak and then frozen slowly and horribly to death whilst praying! Sorry to those with deeply held religious beliefs!

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Alex Gough — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:48:33 GMT

wow you didnt have to do much to become a saint in the old days did you?

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Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:11:55 GMT

[quote user="Gerry Henry"]

Which St Martin, St Martin of Tours or St Martin De Porres?

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Martin de Porres is the one who healed animals.

Martin de Tours is the better-known one who cut his military cloak in half and gave half to a shivering beggar.

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James Laidlaw — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:37:20 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]

[quote user="James Laidlaw"]

St. Martins? I didn't know you'd been canonised!

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Sadly an old joke! Just for the record, admittedly somewhat tongue in cheek, but the local parish is St Martins, the church is visible from the surgery and appears in our logo. St Martin was a minor St Francis in that he was (allegedly) empathetic towards animals so there is a nice fit.

[/quote] Nice! Great how things all fit together sometimes! Sorry to have repeated an old joke!

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Andrew Kent — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:43:42 GMT

[quote user="alex gough"]Urgh, reminds me of a time as a new grad when I went on a visit to do a PTS at a farm, and after the thanks and handshakes and tearful goodbyes, my car was stuck in the mud and crap on their drive, and I had to go back and ask for them to get the tractor to tow me out![/quote] I had a similar experience as a new grad doing a TB test at a small holding, found 3 reactors (half the herd) thoroughly fell out with the farmer and got back to the car to find my back wheels were stuck firmly in a ditch. Thankfully my misfortune lightened the farmers mood a little and he pulled me out!

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Gerry Henry — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:53:32 GMT

Which St Martin, St Martin of Tours or St Martin De Porres?

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Alex Gough — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:07:50 GMT

Urgh, reminds me of a time as a new grad when I went on a visit to do a PTS at a farm, and after the thanks and handshakes and tearful goodbyes, my car was stuck in the mud and crap on their drive, and I had to go back and ask for them to get the tractor to tow me out!

Alex

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Robin Grimmer — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:39:07 GMT

[quote user="Evelyn Barbour-Hill"]

This morning I went to talk to a primary school class. Very successful. Profusely thanked by teacher. Went out to car park, started to reverse out..... you have guessed it. My car's off front wing ground into teacher's car's near rear wing...............................

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Reminds me of a long time ago when I did large animal work. I spent a morning TB testing, all went well.

I got back in to my car, waved goodbye to the farmers and reversed my car.. right over their rockery!

I then was stuck and had to ask very sheepishly for their assistance in freeing me

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Martin Atkinson — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:39:28 GMT

[quote user="James Laidlaw"]

St. Martins? I didn't know you'd been canonised!

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James Laidlaw — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:27:59 GMT

St. Martins? I didn't know you'd been canonised!

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karen jones — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:04:26 GMT

St Martins is a small town about 5 miles from Oswestry and has just had a lock up practice open up . Don't know if that is her confusion as they are running opening offers on vaccination

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Sarah Keir — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:34:26 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]

A prospective new client phones up on Saturday, says she found our practice on the internet and requests information on vaccine prices. She then makes an appointment. As I am multitasking because the nurse is busy I jut take the clients surname and pet's name and address which I thought she said was in Osterley, which is 5 miles down the road.. As her appointment time approaches she phones and says, 'I'm outside St Martin's and its all boarded up'. Now this happens occasionally as some clients pull into next door as our sign is close to the boundary and they have a big wooden gate that is always closed. I advise the client that this is probably the case and just to look next door but she insists it's closed. 'Where are you then', I ask, 'I'm not sure', she replies, 'my sat nav brought me here'. 'We're in West Drayton, what town are you in'?, I venture, 'Oh, I'm in Oswestry', comes the reply. You don't have to be too good at geography to know that Oswestry is in Shropshire and Osterley is in Middlesex, conservatively 150 miles apart. It wasn't so bad that she had driven all that way at the behest of her sat nav but who is the biggest idiot, her for not checking our location or me for not realising she had said Oswestry not Osterley? I'm not sure which St Martin's she had gone to but as far as I'm aware I'm the only St Martins Vet Clinic in the UK.

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Good One!

At vet school while dissecting a very dried out horses legs, the scapel slipped and spliced a nice bit off my first finger pad (removing the finger print!) and through the P2-P3 joint of index finger!!! LOTS of blood. Hated horse anatomy anyway.

Recently cat bite to index finger of right hand resulted in 4 day/3 night/2 GA hospital stay! Nice scars, look like they'll be keepers. By the way, avoid staying in hospital at all costs - in future I think I'll do the Augmentin thing myself.

Enjoy!

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Martin Atkinson — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:33:05 GMT

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Vet2Vet — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:40:26 GMT

Utlendigur:

I've had a nurse remove the blade off a scalpel and somehow manage to flick it off with such force that it travelled a metre through the air before lodging, sharp end first in my back.

I guess your glass is definitely half full , CHEERS !

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Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:31:29 GMT

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Bob Russell — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:25:21 GMT

Done most of these things at one or more times in my career (not had the blade thing though). Various scars but only on my left hand usually from a slipping hoof knife - a bit odd because I am left handed!

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Jillian Hall — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:33:17 GMT

[quote user="Stephen Courtney"]I also once managed to push the syringe needle right through the ring finger of my left hand [/quote]

I did the same once, straight through my finger and out the other side - except with a Steinmann pin! It's amazing how sharp they are, as amazingly it didn't hurt that much - relatively speaking.

It was my first ex-fix. I was on a very steep part of the leanring curve

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Niall Taylor — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:16:23 GMT

[quote user="Utlendigur"] I've had a nurse remove the blade off a scalpel and somehow manage to flick it off with such force that it travelled a metre through the air before lodging, sharp end first in my back.[/quote]

Yeah, that's her story...

Niall

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Niall Taylor — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:07:51 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"]

At least I've never done it with an Immobilon syringe (showing my age now !!!!!!!!!!!!) That one would be difficult to talk one's way out of

Wynne[/quote]

It'd be a pretty short conversation if you tried.

Niall

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Julian Earl — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:52:23 GMT

Prodecure: inject cow via 18g 1.5inch needle.

Talk to farmer whilst holding syringe and replacing plastic cover on needle.

Continue to look at farmer as you attempt to tap the cover firmly on to the needle.

Fail to notice cap has dropped on floor.

Remove 18g 1.5inch needle from palm of hand, needle having penetrated in from one side and out of the other.

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Mark Hedberg — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:06:03 GMT

Ow, ow, ow, and OWWW!

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Utlendigur — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:45:31 GMT

I've done the pulling non-existent cap off needle with teeth thing more times than I'm willing to admit!

I've also burred through my thumbnail with a dental burr - was carefully holding the rabbit's lips out of the way, vaguely noticed my thumb felt a bit warm, then ouch!!!

I've had a nurse remove the blade off a scalpel and somehow manage to flick it off with such force that it travelled a metre through the air before lodging, sharp end first in my back. Takes the idea of a back-stabbing practice to a new level.

Then there was the ANA who managed to rupture her eardrum mid GA when she didn't notice that the ear piece had fallen off the stethoscope.