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Date:   11 September, 2010  
Focus: Small animals - dogs, cats, hamsters, guinea pigs & rabbits
 
Welcome to Dr Vanessa Lin
Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow), MRCVS
11 September, 2010
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On Sep 3, 2010, Dr Vanessa Lin Hui Jun joins Toa Payoh Vet as an associate vet. She has around two years of experience.

I briefed Vanessa on the values of honesty and responsibility of a vet by giving her various real-life examples where the pursuit of making more money erodes such values. These examples can make interesting reading and be written in a book for vets.

It is important that I impart the values of my corporation to young ones and monitor their performance. Vets who don't agree to the values of Toa Payoh Vets are best working elsewhere.

"There are many things you will learn in a small practice and these lessons will be very useful when you start your own practice," I said to Vanessa. "In your previous job, you had many assistants to do things. Here, you may need to think how to manage staff and other matters efficiently and economically. You will become street-wise. You will graduate to become a street-fighter before you start your own practice.

I don't expect whether Vanessa to understand my "street-fighter" remarks. In due course, I will give her examples when she encounter relevant cases in practice at Toa Payoh Vets.
 
"I know you have the intention of opening your own practice," I know several practices have been set up recently. "That is OK with me. You have your future to think of. You can see that my assistant Mr Saw has been with me for over two years and I have given my blessings for him to join other practices with better pay and prospects. He has seen and learnt many things which will make him successful when he opens his own practice in Myanmar."

Veterinary surgery is one aspect which many young vets need the time and cases to master and that can best be done by apprenticing to an old vet with more than 3 decades of practice.  

miniature schnauzer, hairy ears very painful, scratching every day. ear surgery cuts off side wall of vertical canal, toa payoh vets Vanessa did her first hamster anaesthesia and surgery with me. The hamster had a below-the-chin tumour. She also did an ear surgery - a lateral ear canal resection in a dog under my mentorship and I have the picture in this webpage to commemorate the occasion of us working together at her first dog ear surgery operating together with me. She had learnt some of the tricks of the trade like a blood-less field for surgery and avoiding the facial nerve branches. A learning experience by being an apprentice in being able to  observe and taught how an old vet operates is still the best way to be a successful veterinary surgeon.    

Many other tricks of the veterinary trade can only be gained from being accepted as a disciple to an old vet and by being acceptable to training.
Being young, Dr Vanessa Lin will be more the type of vet for the internet generation.  I have confidence that she will make a good veterinarian. I have confidence that she will do well in my practice.    


Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow), MRCVS
Founder
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