Good day. Dominic Barfield here and this is the RVC clinical podcast. Thank you for listening and

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if you could take a couple of minutes of your time to leave us a review. So today we're out

of the studio. We've been demoted. It's probably the wrong word, but we're actually been

promoted to Brian's office. So joining Brian and myself in his office is our good friend of the pod, Dr. Stefano Cortilini.

Thank you, Stefano, for joining us at one might say at short notice.

Yeah, thank you for inviting me, Dom, and for kidnapping me in the ICU corridor.

Well, underdress, which is always important, I think, particularly on such lovely days as

we have today.

But I thought what we would talk about would be, because we got a lot of people going

out into the great wide world of being a veterinarian, so it was a final results day

today at the RVC. So congratulations to everyone who managed to get through. And hopefully,

congratulations to those of you are listening in the rest of the UK. And good luck with it it with it all. So what we're going to

talk about today because there's a lot of people going to be out in the world and I think

that we forget it's quite scary in some ways when you're the people having actually to make

the decisions and probably more importantly in a emergency situation because normally

what happens are people, the clients are kind of heightened, the animal is often in some form of

distress and I suppose that we need to have a clear head probably when we examine these patients,

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