Pitfalls in Veterinary Surgery offers a candid examination of real-life mistakes and mishaps encountered while operating on veterinary patients.
- Describes a range of mistakes and mishaps encountered by a veterinary surgeon with 30+ years of experience
- Provides an honest examination of the reality of operating on pets
- Offers the opportunity to learn from an experienced surgeons mistakes
- Discusses mistakes in a wide range of situations, ranging from commonplace to unusual
- Presents a realistic view of veterinary surgery, including how to live with mistakes
| Notes on Contributors |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Preface |
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| 1 "Can't You Do Anything Right?": The Shocking Realization That I Was Not Perfect |
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| 2 Beastly Bellies |
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| 3 The Friday Night Special: Or Why Do Patients Become Critical Just Before the Weekend? |
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| 4 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: When to Refer and What Do You Do When Referral Is Not an Option? |
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| 5 Courage, Mystery, and Awe: The Intangibles of Being a Veterinary Doctor |
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| 6 Placed on Earth to Test Us: The Not-So-Humble Spay |
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| 7 "Oops!": Not a Good Word to Hear During Surgery |
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| 8 Learning the Hard Way: Student, Resident, Teacher |
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| 9 "But I Don't Want to Look Stupid ...": How to Let Others Help You |
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| 10 "It Didn't Look Like That on Paper!": When Textbooks Let Us Down |
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| 11 "It Will Be Interesting to See Whether That Works": How to Be a Creative Surgeon |
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| 12 When the Unthinkable Happens: Mishaps, Mis-steps, and Medical Errors |
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| 13 Things Went South - Now What? |
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| 14 "There's Got to Be a Morning After": Things Went Wrong - Now Live With It |
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| 15 One Leg Too Many: Patients Who Lost Limbs |
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| 16 Reconstruction Rescue: When the Hole Just Keeps Getting Bigger and Bigger |
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| 17 "Why Is Sam Straining?": Iatrogenic Strictures and Stray Oddities |
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| 18 "An Alien in My Waiting Room": Everyday Occurences of the Unexpected and Unbelievable |
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| 19 Rewind: What Would I Do Differently If I Had the Chance? |
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| Index |
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The Editor Geraldine B. Hunt, BVSc, PhD, FACVSc, is Emeritus Professor at the University of California at Davis, California, USA.
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