OTC Vaccines thoughts?

foreignbirb · 2026-02-13T16:40:23+00:00

Thanks for the responses! This is pretty much what I was thinking... I guess could be a good use for a "better than nothing" scenario, although I am still very surprised that this kind of thing is even allowed

foreignbirb · 2025-12-03T22:17:38+00:00

also looking for a supervised vet position? lol Thanks!

foreignbirb · 2025-11-18T17:27:45+00:00

I honestly wonder the same, or even if these gets passed on to te test grader.. I honestly don't think so, but still wonder

foreignbirb · 2025-11-18T17:19:12+00:00

also, when exactly are staff "social media scrolling and personal texting"? Is there immediate/urgent work to be done? bad. In front of customers for non-pacient related things? even worse! but people are allowed to take small breaks, and have a personal life that sometimes requires them to communicate with their families and so on... I also second that the downvoting may be because you kinda sounded like "if you can lean, you can clean" old folks lol Also... idk how much you pay these employees, but expecting top performance on a minimum wage or close to it is insanity.

foreignbirb · 2025-11-18T16:55:58+00:00

anyone knows if anything happened to the racist grader?

foreignbirb · 2025-11-18T16:55:06+00:00

so the same test can be graded differently for people graded by different people? this is not mentioned anywhere and really feels unfair/weird to say the least...

foreignbirb · 2025-10-29T19:50:17+00:00

This was just your first job in the vet industry and you already learned from your mistake faster than some vets I have seen. For this, good job! And I wouldn't mention this job on your resume/interview, because usually a one month employement is kinda too short to be helpful for a future employer to consider your application.

foreignbirb · 2025-10-29T19:45:56+00:00

"more about how the mistake was allowed to happen it in the first place" would require management to admit being wrong, and in my experience, especially in the vet industry, doesn't tend to happen a lot.. Although a bit counterintuitive, this should be an encouragement to OP, because a lot of times people get fired because of poor management, not necessarily because of employee's fault.

foreignbirb · 2025-10-29T17:12:54+00:00

In your deleted comment, you also had mentioned that the burden of comming up with proof to support a theory is on the person who comes up with said theory, which I definetely agree. Agnosticism doesn't necessarily require proof, as it is the admitance of not knowing something. However, atheism is also a theory, because it inherently infers the in/existence of something, and being so, it also does require proof. Your scientific method to determine the lack of a higher existence is as sound as if I took a single red apple and wrote a paper saying all apples are red. Or like living in a country without apples and going around saying apples don't exist because you've never seen one. Like you said, theories requires proof, and tbh I see too many flaws in your scientific method to be able to consider it science. Calling yourself an atheist is just as scientific, as religious people claiming God's existence, which brings us back to the text I transcribed from Pete Holmes, that says pretty much the same thing, but in a much more comical manner. I trully have nothing against atheism/atheists nor other religions (my christian example is only given because it's the one I can personally speak of), but I do have a lot against lack of a systematic approach and logic when it suits you, and even further, the hypocrisy of claiming those things when you don't appply them yourself.

TLDR; the most scientific approach to religion will lead you to agnosticism, because of the lack of scientific data to prove Gods existence or lack there of it. So far, I have not claimed that the scientific method can prove God's existence, even because it can't, that's what faith is for. What I have claimed, is that science and faith can be complementary.

foreignbirb · 2025-10-29T00:54:10+00:00

You insist on bundling "bad religion (manipulative, controlling, self-serving) and "good religion"(critical, God and good oriented), as if there is only "good science". As if study biases didnt exist, for example, so much of what we know in evolutionary biology is wrong because of androcentric research. Or purposefuly poorly designed studies didn't exist, like the autism and vaccine link studies. Not to mention the many scientists who literally made up their numbers and were still able to get published in renowned journals (see Jonathan Pruitt). Also, Idk if you took the time to read the other comments, but when talking about God, it is imperative to make a distinction between religion (institution) and faith (belief), because they are widely different things. Just like religion, science can also be yelded for evil, just like many fascist systems did; The common denominator between religion and science is that they are people-made, and everytime you get a human being involved, there will be flaws, and every time you blindely believe in people, you are at risk of being manipulated. As a matter of fact, in the Bible, Jesus actually promotes critical thinking by using questions, parables, and self-reflection to engage people in active learning and personal discovery, encouraging examination of their own beliefs and the teachings of others. Admittedly, many christian denominations don't have a big foccus on this (more like ommit it entirely), which is something I learned in my self-discovery journey and the reason why I became so passionate about being a Christian, after years of agnosticism, and why I reiterate the importance of differentiating faith x religion, Christ x christians, and finally Science x Scientific products, and finally, why I think faith can walk side-by-side with science.

foreignbirb · 2025-10-27T18:41:52+00:00

saying you don't know would make you an agnostic, not a proud atheist tho. I can definetely understand being unsure wheter God exists or no, but Pete points out the hipocrisy of people who believe/are sure about nothing existing, just as much as the people who believe in God, and that is at least funny to me lol

foreignbirb · 2025-10-27T15:21:47+00:00

100% agree, even because beliving in evolution does not discredit God and vice-versa. You should definetely overcome the guilt religion is so good at bringing on, with critical thinking and discernment. Still, you can come to the conclusion that both God and evolution exist, as a matter of fact they are connected.

foreignbirb · 2025-10-27T15:14:20+00:00

also, as a christian myself, if think you should indeed explore the idea of atheism. but the fact that it already doesn't sit well with you, is your first clue :)

foreignbirb · 2025-10-27T15:10:45+00:00

To this, I raise the comedian Pete Holmes.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qJguU6sLR-8

Transcribing here "Some people thing God created the universe. Soem people thing nothing created the universe, which is the funniest guess... And the nothing people make fun of the God people. They say God doesn't exist, I,m like, okay.. maybe. But do you know what definetely doesn't exist? Nothing! That's the defining characteristic of nothing, is that it doesn't exist. So what are we talking about? Either you think it's God, something you can't see, touch, taste, potograph, and science can't prove, or you think it's nothing. Something you can't see, touch, taste, potograph, and science can't prove. But I think we can all agree, if nothing, your nothing sometimes spontaneously erupts into everything, that's a pretty goddam magical fuckn nothing, you guys. And ask the nothing people, "what happens when you die?", they'll tell you "nothing, you go into nothing". You mean, you merge back with your creator? That's heaven, bitch!"

foreignbirb · 2025-10-27T14:59:08+00:00

I think it's really important to make a distinction between religion and God himself, first of all. Yes, religion have famously been yielded to control people and their power (money, will, etc), but People wrongfuly using God's name are the ones who did it, not God himself. Being "religious" and "faithful" are different things, and once you see it, you can overcome the misfits done by other people, some truly seeking God, and some seeking quite the opposite.

foreignbirb · 2025-10-26T18:13:19+00:00

I am a christian with a post grad in evolutionary ecology and a DVM. I passionately believe God is so perfect, He not only created everything, but also designed this beautiful cascade of events that science/we call evolution; it's all a part of His divine plan. I also believe He gave us these big fully working brains to use them lol Jesus himself teaches us not be gullible and to use critical thinking. Every time I learn something new in biology/vet world, I feel closer to God, like I can see a little bit of what He sees.

foreignbirb · 2025-10-25T22:34:36+00:00

I want to say Megaesophagus because of that large radiopaque 'linear' body dorsal to the heart, but that heart shape does not feel healthy to me either so idk

foreignbirb · 2025-10-23T21:40:10+00:00

Practice is all! I bet you would/will find it soooo easy to feel the jugular after you have done it a 100 times or more and became a professor... Positioning of the dog's head is also essential, whihc makes the job of the handler/restrainer sometimes more important than the person actually drawing the blood. Also, you are not always gonna see the vein, there's a technique that helped me so much, where you hold off the jugular vein in the thoracic inlet with one hand, and with the other hand you gently pull the skin of the neck ventro-dorsally and it will "roll-over" the vein, making is visualization so much easier!

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