I am a veterinarian in the North Texas area. Since graduation in 2023 I've kept track of my cases using Google Sheets because I thought it'd be interesting to see how many animals I treat and what they're treated for.
I meant to post this last year and back in June of this year but I kept forgetting to post on Mondays 😅 I'll try to be more consistent in the future. A few notes:
Slide 1 – Animal Species
This only includes animals I've done a doctor exam on or do telemedicine about. Animals that I do not directly interact since the technicians do it (toe nail trims, anal gland expression, blood draws, etc.) are not included.
I have a passion for exotic animals (ferrets, reptiles, rabbits, backyard chickens, etc.) but there is an exotic clinic near me where most of those animals go to, so I don't get to see as many as I'd like. Hopefully in the next few years that'll change.
Slide 2 – Body System
I kept track of the body system that was affected during my exams. General wellness includes vaccines, weight management, and discussions about quality of life. For what it's worth, this is about what the problem was, not just the symptoms. If a cat came in for peeing all over the place and it was because the cat was stressed, that was marked as both Neurology as well as Urinary/Renal. The same animal can come in with multiple systems affected, but I only mark a system once per animal (i.e. a dog with urinary stones and a UTI only had "Urinary/Renal" marked once). Here are the most common problems each species came in with:
Dogs – Overweight (General Wellness), allergies (dermatology, immunology), and poor dental health (Oral).
Cats – Stress induced urinary issues (Urinary/Renal)
Ferrets, rabbits, reptiles, & other exotics: Husbandry (please look up how to gutload and calcium dust your reptile's food)
Slide 3 – Procedures
I don't think this one needs me to explain more than what's on the screen but let me know if you've questions.
See you next year!
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20 comments
Dont use pie charts.
If you still do, sort by something. This is ugly ugly data.
Very interesting stuff but it’s not that well done visually
1. Pie charts don’t really work when you have so much data, better to opt for bar graphs
2. It’s simplistic but in a bad way, just some colorful pie charts with text on a white background
What categories do you enjoy the most and least ? Why? (I’m a Term 6 vet student- about to start clinical year in January)
Have you ever treated a rabies patient?
I’m sorry about the euthanasia. Must have been hard. Hopefully the animals lived a long life and died surrounded by their loving owners.
What are the top 5 things animals are treated for?
The fact that you can’t tell me in three seconds should tell you what you did wrong on chart #2. The options aren’t listed in any order.
why are there many more dog cases than cats? did a quick google and while the ownership of dogs are higher, the cats aren`t that far behind
I’m surprised dogs and cats aren’t equal. Is that due to your location or cats just getting fewer visits?
Do you have the pets names? Would love to see naming stats on such a large sample
why aren’t things listed in either ascending/descending order 😵💫
Does ophthalmology include eye removal? I ask because I have a rescue cat that had his eye removed at about 6 weeks old. He had herpes. They also neutered him at the same time, but that’s a different story.
This is way better than the usual Monday “I had sex this many times last month” posts.
I would order the reasons for visits by frequency so you can quickly see what the most common and least common reasons are.
I’m surprised gastrointestinal is so low, I feel like 90% of non-routine vet visits I’ve taken my dogs to over the years are because they’re barfing or have diarrhea.
This is interesting data… but at least for me slide 3 looks like I’m viewing it through the dirty window from My Cousin Vinny… the text is badly out of focus (tried on 2 browsers, the other slides dont have this issue).
What is the most exotic animal you have treated?
This sub isn’t what it used to be… this sub is NOT interesting data. This sub is supposed to be about visually appealing ways to display that interesting data. The above is not beautiful.
I need more vets to be able to see exotics. Other vets that claimed to know enough about birds could’ve killed mine by missing necrotic tissue.
Please keep up with your passion for exotics. We need more of you
How do veterinary docs deal with non-mundane per species like strange reptiles or birds or even rarer things? Is the basic training broadly based or comprehensive enough to be enough to know idiosyncrasies of various species and to diagnose them? Or is there such a thing as specialization with it which one veterinary doc might not be able to treat a type of creature but another might be?
Just curious how it works and what happens with a thing is just unfamiliar?
Interesting data, and aligns with my experience! My dog has allergies (environment), my cat stress induced UTI – and three of them are treated for arthritis, which I don’t see mentioned here.
Do you get that often, that they come for arthritis pain? Or is that something a lot of owners don’t notice, or disregard due to being ‘old age’?
Awesome!! Aspiring vets will love seeing this breakdown of who you’ve served and what services you’ve provided. Nice work!
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