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Sleuthing sickness 

For as long as there’s been life, there’s been disease. The ancient Greeks were the first to try to study and understand it, bringing life to the discipline of pathology with dissections of deceased people by the physicians Herophilus and Erasistratus.

In the 1850s, Rudolph Virchow, a German physician and professor of pathology, pioneered translating this scientific discipline to the animal kingdom.

Veterinary students Kelbi Irvin and Emily Brown give Taz a checkup while fellow student Brandon Batty fills out the chart.

Left to right: Trevor Kahi Hirano, Sean Calalang, Devin James, Jenelle Piñon, Emily Green, Hilary Ann Lakin, Gloria Petri, Holly Omoto, Cecelia Dean and John Retzlaff. 

Veterinary student Kyndall Zieglowsky, class of 2023, inspects an owl's eye. 

Catherine Skinner examines an alpaca as Dr. Christopher Cebra teaches during the camelid course. 

Catherine Skinner has gone two weeks without getting spit on. That’s hopefully a normal occurrence for most of us. But most of us aren’t working with alpacas and llamas on a daily basis.

Skinner just finished the Camelid Medicine and Surgery course, a two-week elective, at Oregon State University’s Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine. It covers all things alpaca and llama.  

Knowing strategies for self-care is a huge part of wellbeing for everyone, including the veterinary community. For some people it's getting outside for a walk or run. Photo: springtime on the Oregon State University campus.