A Veterinarian's Prayer

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 let's start there.

Lord, help me be a good doctor. Not even a great doctor like House, MD, but at least a doctor who will not space out and miss the glaringly obvious stuff that every veterinarian should know.

Lord, let no other doctor 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 and not onto Google reviews or Angie's List.

Grant me patience and understanding

Grant me a future that includes someday not having to work on weekends. And until that day, I beg you for a few Saturday shifts that are not completely insane.

When the anal glands express erratically, may their contents find my coat and not my face or hair.

It is not lost on me that the truly wonderful pets seem to have a significantly greater chance of getting an incurable illness at a young age. If these pets have memorable names (Professor Snacks, Captain America, Chipper Donut, Jabba Bear, etc.), live with children and have delightful owners, their long-term survival rates are even worse.

While I do not seek to understand your reasoning for this, and I am grateful for those pets that seem to be too bad to die, I would really appreciate it if more of the great ones could live nice, long lives.

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 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.

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.

Also: Might I request to be scheduled to work when the staff training meetings involve free lunch—and off when they do not? Speaking of schedules, please smite the technician who calls me at home early Saturday morning when it is not really, absolutely, without a doubt, critically necessary. Smite him good.

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. In extreme cases, feel free to strike me with an illness so I am not in the building when the true nightmare cases come in. If I were able to choose between getting pneumonia or getting sued, I'd take the former.

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 don't want to have to choose between moving and changing professions.

Finally, please give me the wisdom not to ask any pet owner when she is due unless I am absolutely, 100 percent sure that she's pregnant.

Amen

Kind Courtesy - Dr AndrewRorak, DVM,MS, DVM Newsmagazine

KarmaTube: The Koh Panyee Football Club

How very often we give up, bogged down by the circumstances. We rave and rant. We curse and let go the time and the opportunities that come our way. Here, watch this truly inspirational video! It is a video that shows our indomitable spirit and the innate fire that we all have to bring in a positive change.  Sadly, in the rumble and tumble of life we lose the fire. Come let's find the fire within us!

KarmaTube: The Koh Panyee Football Club

Be The Change

Last evening, my wife led me to "Karma Tube" - a site that is a storehouse of some truly inspiring content that is relevant and so apt for the times that we live in. Here is a video from Karma Tube that I like to share with you.

PS- The stray visitor who stumbles at this post is passionately exhorted to find time to visit the site Karma Tube. Sharing happiness and positivity actually multiplies them.

Enjoy!

Video from KarmaTube

In Mourning

Today, the brave heart passed away.  

Today, I feel ashamed to be an Indian male.

Sister, may you rest in peace.

May your sacrifice wakes us up from our slumber and leads us to shed away our blindfolds and veils.

Pursuit of Excellence

How do we achieve personal excellence ? How do we raise the bar ? There are numerous means espoused by intellectuals that advocate a number of things and activities for this. However, the power and indeed the ability to excel and to evolve lies solely with us. Agreed, spiritual leaders, intellectuals can assist as facilitators but the ultimate capability lies within us - and remains often untapped.

No matter whether we are working or playing, we must ask ourselves - "Is it my best performance ?", "Is it the best that I can do at the moment and in the given circumstances ?"   If our answer is "Yes" - we are doing good. If the answer is "No", we must put in our best. Let me give an example from practical life to illustrate this point.  As I run a marathon, I must ask myself whether I am giving it everything that I have in me or not and if I feel that I still have a little reserve of energy in me, I must lengthen my strides and better my timing. This applies to all individuals -  the washer man cleaning the clothes, the student doing his homework, l - the chef making the food, the typist typing a document, an engineer constructing a dam, a painter painting the wall, a sculptor chiselling away a stone, a scientist making a missile, a bureaucrat analysing an issue, a soldier at a relief work or at the battlefield.

And here are the bonuses that come with it - we live in the moment, we are more focussed, we make an honest attempt at the task at hand and gradually push the frontiers of our perceived capabilities. This also gives us an inner happiness.

A Goan Holiday

Goa !

Sun kissed beaches, crsip morning air, languorous afternoons, glitzy nights and tonnes of fun - that is Goa for you. Long walks at lesser known beaches, far  away from the maddening crowd is bliss and some more. An all enveloping silence with just a murmur of the sea and the breeze in the face is spiritually uplifting and brings a smile for no apparent reason or is there one?

Everyday Philosophy

I am pained to hear that someone spoke ill of me. Therefore, I must not speak ill of someone - ever

There are times when I have not measured up to everything I believe. Sometimes though, I may get another chance. If it happens, I will take it. And perhaps I'll grow taller in my eyes !