Re: RC: RE: RE: Ride vetting

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/28/99 10:35:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
bobmorris@rmci.net writes:

<< So, again, please every one do your homework prior to making broad
 statements on such subjects where the welfare of the AERC can be put at
 risk. >>

Various forms of the statement about using DVM in situations which infer a 
license are common.  However, in activities that involve judging, rather than 
diagnosis or treatment, there is NO prohibition about using one's rightful 
title.  It isn't any different than if a retired or academic DVM writes a 
book or gives advice in a clinic.  

In your previous post, you tried to link preride exams to diagnosis.  That's 
a pretty big step.  Example--you do not allow a horse to start because he is 
grade 3 lame.  That is not a diagnosis at all.  That is merely the 
identification of a symptom.  Diagnosis would entail working that lameness 
up, possibly through diagnostic means such as nerve blocks, ultrasound, 
x-ray, manipulation to determine if the lameness becomes worse, etc.  The 
next time you see a ride vet do that for the lame horses at the ride (or at 
least do it in context with the ride vetting) let me know.  Same thing with 
metabolic problems.  If a horse fails a check metabolically, it doesn't 
matter if he is colicky, tied up, overridden, underconditioned, or has a case 
of the flu.  To the control vet, he simply isn't fit to continue.  Any 
diagnosis goes hand in hand with treatment, which is beyond the control 
phase.  Certainly experienced ride vets will share their perception of the 
horse with the diagnosing/treating veterinarian, but that's just common sense 
and keeping the welfare of the horse first and foremost.  Meanwhile, I can 
imagine the laughter and wrath I would have gotten from my professors had I 
EVER listed "not fit to continue" as a diagnosis in vet school clinics!

Heidi


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