[Dailydrool] PUVTH - Onco

[Laura Tancredi]

Oh PS :)  
I just read Robert's post.  No clients are allowed to be present during the chemotherapy due to the toxic nature of the medication.  All persons involved are gowned, wearing "chemo gloves", goggles and masks and it is performed in a specified area.  No one at that school is allowed to let you into that area during that time due to regulations regarding chemotheraputic drugs.  If you explain why you are being a proactive client (they gave the wrong drug last time) I think people will be very understand.  "You attract more flies with honey than vinager" as my grandmother used to say :) 
Laura

--- On Tue, 1/5/10, Laura Tancredi <tancgirl1980 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Laura Tancredi <tancgirl1980 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: PUVTH - Onco
> To: "daily drool" <dailydrool at dailydrool.org>, sue117 at hotmail.com
> Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 1:14 PM
> Hi Susan 
> I remember when Rosie first started at Purdue's Onco
> section and I thought that you guys really liked it. 
> As I had told you before, I went to Purdue for my clinical
> year.  I didn't take an onco rotation but they were by
> far my favorite section in the small animal hospital. 
> I have of course only been on the "other side of the desk"
> as usual (i.e., not a client) and I don't know exactly how
> the onco section runs their appointments.  I know that
> customer service is important to the hospital but being a
> teaching hospital it is not like  a regular
> hospital.  I didn't like that people had to wait for
> long periods of time and such but I understood that the best
> for the animals was being done and sometimes customer
> service suffers.  I'm surprised that being in the
> clinical study didn't decrease cost as all the clinical
> studies that occurred when I was there were paid at less in
> part.  
> 
> As far as mixing up chemo meds that is not good and
> basically the last thing I would expect from that
> section.  Of course people are people and make mistakes
> but I doubt that no one got in trouble for that.  I'm
> sure in fact that someone got in HUGE trouble for
> that.  If it was an employee they were written up and
> if they were intern, resident, or student their evaluation
> and perhaps even passing the section were based on
> that.  I know this personally (and shamefully). 
> After being on rotation for 4 weeks with no days off and
> getting 2-3 hours of sleep a night, I miscalculated a fluids
> dose for a cat.  It was only slightly off but I was
> screamed at for it.  
> 
> Ok so this is getting long but if I were you I would call
> Dr Mike Childress.  First of all he is a super nice
> person and an incredibly intelligent doctor.  And
> secondly a senior clinician.  I don't know if he is the
> senior clinician on Rosie's case at this time or not but I
> don't think it will matter.  But if he isn't on clinics
> right now then talk to whoever is senior clinician at that
> time.  
> 
> The one thing I didn't like about clinics was when people
> didn't want to see the vet students.  Rosie's presence
> is an opportunity for the up and coming veterinarians to
> learn more and help many more dogs in the future.  When
> I was there rotations were five weeks and now they are three
> weeks.  So every 3 weeks a new group of students are
> coming in on the rotation.
>   
> I emailed Dr Sarah McMillan (onco resident at Purdue) who I
> went to Purdue with to see if there is another non-school
> onco specialist that would be a good fit for you to switch
> to if you are interested.  I thought Dr Arnold was into
> alternative medicine but I only saw her when she was an
> intern in small animal surgery and didn't get to talk about
> it too much.  
> 
> Good luck and I hope that Rosie is doing well :) 
> 
> Laura
> Flash and Ryu
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