I mentioned, back in July I think, (ah yes, here’s the correct post) that one of the reasons I love my profession is because of the wide and wild variety of species with which we deal.
Human medical people got NO idea whatsoever about how absolutely COOL medicine can be when it has to be applied to things that range from fins to legs (sometimes lots and lots of legs) to wings to carapaces.

And so I submit my experiences with opening up VIN and getting to the front page where, amongst other things, there are links posted to interesting veterinary journal articles and interesting conversations on the message boards.

Over the summer there was one day when there were links to two articles:
“Treatment of venous ulcers with surgical adhesives derived from snake venom”
and
“Notes on gestation periods and litter size in the arenicolous buthid scorpion, Leiurus quinquestriatus”

Who knew? A group of baby scorpions is a litter! And, for the record, the gestation period varies from 155 to 277 days and litter sizes range from 35 to 87 offspring. 😯
And let’s just talk about how cool it is that snake venom may be useful in treating venous ulcers (a classification that includes pressure sores and diabetic ulcers amongst others).

And just the other day I opened up the front page on VIN and dropped right into a conversation about seizures in an ostrich.

Real doctors treat more than one species!