What do you want to achieve from your relationship with your mentor? Gerardo Poli urges mentees to consider this before beginning their search, to ensure a successful partnership.
To mark Mental Health Awareness Week 2023, we revisit Nick Marsh’s very personal account of ‪depression‬, in which he explains one very important thing to those who find themselves in a similar situation: YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
Increasing resilience takes time, so Gerardo Poli provides a plan to help you develop it – from embracing change, to identifying a sense of purpose and showing self-compassion.
“I get knocked down, but I get up again,” sang Chumbawamba in an ode to “the resilience of ordinary people” back in 1997. Now, in the first of a two-parter, Gerardo Poli asks you to focus on how resilient you truly are.
Jane Davidson thinks she may finally be growing up. Whether you agree or not, this revelation led her to re-evaluate her lifestyle, roles and responsibilities – and make changes for the betterment of her mental and physical health.
In the first of a three-part series, Tip of the Week author Gerardo Poli explains how the most important part of investigating a seizure case is taking a thorough and accurate history from the owner.
Following his previous two blog entries on hyponatraemia, Tip of the Week author Gerardo Poli concludes the trilogy with a look at how to correct serum sodium concentrations.
Building on part one of his series on the clinical signs of hyponatraemia, Gerardo Poli looks at the different causes in both dogs and cats and basic treatment.
Operating with severely limited resources at the Animal Rescue Centre (ARC) in Goa gave Eleanor “a newfound appreciation for the fundamentals of surgery”.
Continuing on from her previous blog post about many dogs' unfortunate penchant for underwear, Jane Davidson discovers there may be a plausible, biological reason for this behaviour.
Veterinary student Eleanor Goad describes her time abroad for EMS in a Goan rescue centre, where she learned valuable lessons and honed skills she will carry with her throughout her career.
Gerardo Poli follows last week’s explanation of what the curve means by discussing how it indicates a change in haemoglobin’s affinity for oxygen, as well as contributory factors.
By focusing on the graph of a typical, healthy individual, Gerardo Poli demonstrates how the curve is a graphical representation of the movement of oxygen around different parts of the body.
In the second of his posts on pulse oximetry, Gerardo Poli looks at issues that can undermine the accuracy of pulse oximeter readings and discusses how to overcome such problems.
