VETERINARIAN’S PRAYER Asking for strength, wisdom, self-control 1. Guide me in medicine. Please let me find the tiny, dehydrated vein of the ancient kitty when I am asked to perform euthanasia under the emotional eye of her owner. I ask for this first, Lord, because it is my single most common reason for prayer, so lets start there. 2. Lord, help me be a good doctor. Lord, let no other doctor be able to look at one of my medical records, shake her head and think, What an idiot. If I do make a mistake, please let the lesson find its way firmly into my memory. 3. Grant me patience and understanding. 4. When the anal glands express erratically, may their contents find my coat and not my face or hair. 5. Give me self-control. Bestow upon me the strength to eat heartily from the holiday veggie trays that clients send and to merely sample the brownies and cookies. And when my strength fails (as it will), please guide me to be more reasonable in my goals and aim at least not to eat the entire batch before the technicians know the baked goods have arrived. 6. Make smooth my dealings with staff. Please make me the kind of veterinarian other people enjoy working with. Please let the technicians and receptionists like me for the right reasons, and if one or two of them decide not to like me, let that be for the right reasons, too. 7. Give me wisdom in handling clients. I thank you for all the wonderful clients you send into my life each day. When it comes to those few who are less wonderful, help me to recognize the cases that I should refer away immediately. When I call the mean owners to check in on their pets, let my call go to voicemail. Likewise, please do not let the mentally unbalanced breeders find out where I live. I dont want to have to choose between moving and changing professions. 8. Finally, please give me the wisdom not to ask any pet owner when she is due unless I am absolutely, 100 percent sure that shes pregnant. Amen. Paraphrased from Andy Roark, DVM
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:40:17 +0000
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