Quotes from my life at vet school
About dysconjugate nystagmus: "This is not something we see very often, but when we do, we make a movie."
A neurologist talking about one of our internal medicine specialists during lecture: "Dr. Marks, of rectum fame... oh, you're recording this aren't you?"
Lecturer known for being a hard-nose: "I'm wrong sometimes." [Facebook lights up with students recording the momentous occasion.]
On narcolepsy/cataplexy: "It's congenital in this one colony of Dobermans. The way they grade them is they have a corridor of meatballs and they see how far the dog can get down the corridor. Is he a one-meatball, a two-meatball..."
On epilepsy: "Dogs are genetic disasters. There's a reason you don't breed with your brother. ... Apart from the fact he's obnoxious."
The video about "does your dog bite? ... that is not my dog" didn't work during lecture, so the lecturer acted it out, to applause from the class. His response: "Aren't you glad that the one of the dog having a seizure and defecating worked?"
"There are obvious downsides to putting your child on a tiger."
"She's a Dachshund, and she's walking, which is always good."
"Humans are just a different mammal, but they're different." (Glad we got that cleared up.)
"I didn't post a picture in this lecture because when I do tendon ultrasound by myself I cannot tell what is what."
"I think I'm a temperature sensitive mutant."
On neuromuscular disease: An image of a phone message pad, with the message "Hunting dog. Died - stiff & cold, next morning up & running around. Pulled 2 ticks from back leg while dead. Please call." Lecturer: "If only it were always this easy!"
And, of course, one from a student. "There isn't time to do everything they assign you. It's physically not possible, not if you're also showering and sleeping."
A neurologist talking about one of our internal medicine specialists during lecture: "Dr. Marks, of rectum fame... oh, you're recording this aren't you?"
Lecturer known for being a hard-nose: "I'm wrong sometimes." [Facebook lights up with students recording the momentous occasion.]
On narcolepsy/cataplexy: "It's congenital in this one colony of Dobermans. The way they grade them is they have a corridor of meatballs and they see how far the dog can get down the corridor. Is he a one-meatball, a two-meatball..."
On epilepsy: "Dogs are genetic disasters. There's a reason you don't breed with your brother. ... Apart from the fact he's obnoxious."
The video about "does your dog bite? ... that is not my dog" didn't work during lecture, so the lecturer acted it out, to applause from the class. His response: "Aren't you glad that the one of the dog having a seizure and defecating worked?"
"There are obvious downsides to putting your child on a tiger."
"She's a Dachshund, and she's walking, which is always good."
"Humans are just a different mammal, but they're different." (Glad we got that cleared up.)
"I didn't post a picture in this lecture because when I do tendon ultrasound by myself I cannot tell what is what."
"I think I'm a temperature sensitive mutant."
On neuromuscular disease: An image of a phone message pad, with the message "Hunting dog. Died - stiff & cold, next morning up & running around. Pulled 2 ticks from back leg while dead. Please call." Lecturer: "If only it were always this easy!"
And, of course, one from a student. "There isn't time to do everything they assign you. It's physically not possible, not if you're also showering and sleeping."