One of the most difficult parts of veterinary medicine is the fact that your patients can’t directly communicate. Oftentimes, issues go unnoticed simply because the animal masks things like pain. Luckily, the vet immediately knew this hedgehog had something wrong, because it kept exploding into a bunch of golden rings.

Free my homie sonic. He done nothing wrong.

It's also the only one that's an Xray instead of a CT

MOISTURISE ME

"That's it I'm taping you down!"

The bdsm community is leaking.

No pun intended btw.

Mine are the snake and the taped bird

That one made me laugh as well. I never knew they had such... unflattering (yet flat!) bodies.

No shit, I once had the chance to accompany a patient to an large aninmal hospital for an MRI.

The problem: It was so far away that the patient needed to be airlifted. Which was far beyond the capacity of regular HEMS. So they called in the military and they send a fucking CH-53 cargo helicopter. These things are huge and loud. But cool.

That was one interesting ride. Somewhat embarrassing for the patient (who was not in on weight level due to simply eating too much - patient had a massive and life altering orphan hormonal disease) but patient kept somewhat good spirits and the volunteer fire brigade did a good job blocking the view.

Nowadays human medicine has improved - you can now simply use an open MRI with specialised gurneys. They usually can take more than 400kg, sometimes 500kg.

I had a patient tell me he had to go to a zoo for an MRI. I thought it was a self deprecating joke but he was serious.

Stopped asking those pesky questions about what?!?

The bird is for a normal x-ray. Here's the context.

CT scans take much longer, but an x-ray is just a few seconds. I think it's just a practical way to get the bird in place for a quick x-ray, and by practical I mean the vet techs minimize their (very real) risk of being murdered.

Good phones 🙄