Day-to-day diversity in mixed practice

摘要

For the past two years, Eithne has been working at the Veterinary Centre in Mountmellick, Co Laois, a mixed veterinary practice. The clinic also services the surrounding counties of Offaly and Westmeath. She describes it as a very progressive practiceb*ut says it can be tough work, especially as working with large animals means vets aren't working typical nine-to-five hours. "Personally, I have always like mixed practice because of the variety of the work involved. I think it also comes down to personal taste and personality and whether you are happy working at three o'clock in the morning doing a C-section on a cow or working on a cat at nine in the morning. You are absolutely jumping from one species to the other, and you have to process a lot of different knowledge."