Welcome to Vet soup, a website dedicated to sharing my experience of streamlining the veterinary clinical role. The aim of the site is to provide helpful tips and tricks that have made the job easier for me. I have picked up these tips as I have gone along, mainly by copying others or making it up as I go. Rarely has someone sat down and talked me through these aspects. I would like for this site to correct that for others.

As medical professionals it can seem as though these things are not important. It can feel that as long as you get the medicine right the rest shouldn’t matter. I would love that to be the case. I have found that being inefficient can be the difference between loving and hating your job. Staying an hour late every day just to finish your notes, on top of potential emergencies coming through the door threatening your home time already, starts to really drag.

When studying to be a vet you learn so much. Whole textbooks worth of medicine, surgery and diagnostics. Having to learn even more about soft skills seems unfair. I hope reading these articles will feel worth the effort.

What I would like this site to become ultimately is a resource and a place for sharing ideas. If you have your own tips to share, please comment on the articles or email me. My plan is to collate those I can into a monthly update to the site. If you disagree with a tip or have constructive criticism please let me know. Whilst I believe forums to be a dangerous game I am not ready to play I would like to spread the wisdom as much as possible.

Some Promises:

• I will only share tips that I either find useful or could see being useful to others.
• I will not share tips that I believe could be dangerous (e.g. multiple GAs at once)
• I will never use AI to generate articles, the information here will come from human experience only. (I may use it to generate pictures, I am not an artist)

I hope you enjoy the site.

Why Vet Soup?

I found adapting to a Small-animal Clinical veterinary role difficult. During a particularly difficult moment I remember despairing among a group of friends, desperately trying to explain the problem.

“I like the clients, I love the patients, I enjoy the team, the medicine and the surgery. But I don’t know why I hate my job so much. Somehow, it’s the soup that it all sits in that is affecting me so much.”

So there, vet soup.