A Day in the Life of Dr Todd Field
11.30am 1.00pm 1.30pm 2.00pm
Consults start for the afternoon – we see a huge range of pets with lots of different health issues. The afternoon rushes by with skin problems, vaccinations, sore legs and red eyes.
6.00pm
Grab a quick coffee before the team have a beautiful one-year-old boxer all prepped and ready for her spay.
A quick chance to call clients and give updates on their pets, let them know lab results and answer questions.
This is catch-up time where we can finish phone calls, notes, plan bookings and surgery slots over the next few days.
7.30pm
8.45am
The order of the day is planned. Fixing an ACL/cruciate ligament is first up. We get Ted the labrador to sleep and then spend the next couple of hours operating on his shin bone and realign everything with a plate and screws.
10.45am
The awesome nurse crew admit the surgical patients for the morning, we check them over to make sure they are healthy, and surgery can go ahead as planned. Each patient has their own anaesthetic, nursing and surgical plan checked.
Time for a lunch break today. Often we miss out on lunch. We have a big team, so getting a chance to catch up is great.
Home to see Kate and the kids. The hectic time of the day where Kate has far more skills at corralling the kids towards bed. Dinner and then story time for Georgia and Louis. Ems our oldest, reads Morrigan Crow to us.
8.30pm
Team huddle to make sure we are aware of what is on that day and what everyone will be doing. A great chance for us all to say hi as our team changes face day-to-day.
Next up is Beau, a pug that is in for his castration and surgery to open up his airway. Pugs are all personality, and this guy is no different. Waking up from airway surgery can be stressful so Beau has a small team watching him very closely – he wakes up like a champ!
Relax and catch up with Kate, often case study fits in here but not tonight.
10.00pm
6.00am
Head into work. Lower Queen Street isn’t clogged today so get to work a little earlier to do some research and catch up on notes.
8.15am
7.15am
Alarm goes off, snooze it once before getting up to have a shower. Georgia and Louis manage to organise their own breakfasts while I make some toast and a coffee. Then we make the dreaded school lunches, which are usually a team effort in our house.
8.00am
Our youngest kids Louis and Georgia come to check if it is ‘up time’ yet. My wife Kate manages to convince them to go back to bed, every minute of sleep counts.
6.15am
Your four-legged friend may not love a trip to the vet, but veterinarian Todd Field and the dedicated team at Richmond Town and Country Vet certainly make sure they’re in safe hands. Todd shares with us what he gets up to in a day as a small animal vet.
Sleep time!
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