CHALLENGES IN VET

The Veterinary Medicine area is very difficult, especially in Chile, because we need to fight every day with so many problems. The first challenge for us is that our patients can’t tell us what it’s the problem so we need to investigate and ask to the owner what the matter with the animal.

Secondly, a big problem in veterinary it’s that almost never we can’t use good technology or have good and enough resources, because many people don´t worry about the health of them animals. In my opinion, only a few concerned people remember that animal also can be sick and have accident the same way that us and almost no one save or spend money in their animals in the same way that we worry about our health. So this is the principal factor that limits the vets to develop and emerge in a better way.

The investigation it is a low area in veterinary. We need to research and investigate more about animals. It’s missing too much to learn yet. It´s important to remember that all the biggest experiments that explained the functions of our body systems had making in animals, so in some way, we owe our lives to animals. The problem is that missing investment to continue these investigations.

In social matters, Chileans need so much to learn about animals. It unbeliever that we don´t have a good law about what it’s have animal responsibility and the animal cruel yet. I think that is important this laws because we can prevent many accidents, healthy problems, canine population control, and also identify a possible aggressive person with people or kids.

In my mind, all these problems will not resolve if the people don´t change their behavior or the way to think about this topic. If people would be like suppose to be, we will avoid more car accidents, dog bites, illness, murder dogs, and others. It’s for this reason that we need a law to make this change and also we have to remember always that we are animals too and they have necessity like us.

On mice and medicine: If a treatment Works on rodents, will it cure us?

Mus musculus is the most experimented-on creature. The most of modern pharmaceutical treatment or basic understanding of disease has involved working on a mouse. This is because they’re the smallest and easiest mammals to study in a laboratory setting – they breed quickly and are good enough for many types of study and share over 90% of their genes with humans. Also, the main biological body systems work in the same way with very similar structure and function.

However, using a mouse can never tell scientists everything they need to now. They have to replicate it in a higher animal, like a monkey, pushes it closer to becoming a reality for people. For example, an anti-ageing pill extended the mice’s life by up to 38%, but in humans this drug suppresses immunity.

When researching whether a drug works, doses on mice are sometimes higher that a safely dose for a patient, even allowing for adjustment of metabolic rate and size. In mice, the scientist objective is demonstrate an effective treatment and not always tries to make a significant reduction to test for safety before could consider upping the dose and evaluated the side-effects.

Nevertheless, 26 Nobel prizes have gone to discoveries where research on mice, including the discovery of penicillin and understanding the viruses’ roll. As well, mice useful in understanding how genes work and why they might go wrong. A recent advance, found that when two genes mutated in mice, caused autism-like symptoms affecting brain growth and sociability and this can explain the genetic human autism.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/04/medical-experiments-on-mice

In memory of “Martina”

We need to improve our faculty!

Our Veterinary faculty maybe it’s the better place to study this carrier because it has a big prestige and recognition. But not everything brighter it’s gold, and also has some bad points. For this reason I think that it’s a good new that the teachers chose a new Dean of this faculty because new people means that it will be new ideas and new projects.

In my opinion, the faculty needs to improve in various aspects. For example, I think that needs a Casino for own faculty and most big with prices more accessible for the students. Also needs to include some subject that I´m sure that are important like Ethic, especially when a graduate was the responsible for illegally pitbull fights.

If I was the dean, I will change the 4.0 rule. This consist that in all the subject you had to do a global test that named Integrative test and if you got in this test a note lower than 4.0 you have to do a “Recuperative test”. I regard that this rule it’s so unnecessary especially when the students had very good previous notes.

It’s important to mention the bigger tariff that we have to pay all the years. The worst part of this that the tariff increase every year. It not fair that a state university have this high tariff those are not possible to pay for all people. Maybe the authorities have to demand money to the government because I think that it’s responsibility of them to give the same opportunity for all of us.

It’s probably with this changes the student can be more comfortable at least for lunch, they would have more time to do other things outside the university, they would form a good mind to practice medicine and to interact to animals (essential for this carrier), and also with economic tariffs, many people very intelligent and with the capacity people will can accesses to study.