Could a vet deliver a baby?

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I'm just pondering the crossover of medical and surgical skills between vets and doctors. I think a vet could do a cesarean in a pinch because they learn about such a wide variety of species.

I'm not pregnant.

Yes… I did say ‘in the apocalypse’…

Who will be enforcing this in the apocalypse? I would imagine the regulators would not be operational and if you needed a C section you would take whatever you could get rather than die!

Farm vets frequently attend childbirths that are in the process of going wrong, in a variety of mammals of similar size or larger to humans, with a high rate of success.
A vet wouldn't be my first choice of birthing partner if a doctor was available but I think anyone who regularly works with sheep would be a great start (despite anatomical differences).

It works the other way. When a near-neighbour’s cat was injured, the vet was going to charge a fortune to remove stitches. As the cat’s owner is an orthopaedic surgeon, he decided to do the job himself.

Probably do a better job than the average person off the street, especially if the woman was giving birth on all fours 😆
A c section or most surgeries in an emergency I would think they’d do a decent job and would at least know about sterile techniques and what to do if something went wrong

No, I don’t think I would let a vet perform a caesarean on me. Whenever a gorilla needs one, they always seem to bring in a doctor to perform the operation. I would definitely let a vet remove a tick, though.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68313089

https://news.sky.com/story/gorilla-born-after-very-rare-emergency-op-10177981

I binged watched 18 (?-maybe more) series of ‘Greys anatomy’ during lockdown.
I averaged about 6 hours a day.
By the end I felt like I could quite easily diagnose a lot, knew which drugs to give (watching 30 years of casualty has helped with that too) and perform a simple ‘appy’ (appendectomy).

The stitching would have been a blanket stitch as that’s my favourite.
You know how people learn to drive in 2 weeks on intense courses?
Well I had that but just as a ‘General Surgeon’. 😂😂

So yes, I would have no issue with thinking a vet could quite easily deliver a baby, and even do a C section.

Are you after your ears being fondled?😂I wouldn't like my temperature taken rectally.

Also it's not frowned upon if their patients lick them, but .....

Fair point.

Apes not monkeys.

His wife delivered her baby. He helped.

the vast majority of vets don’t operate on primates...

a vet is obviously more qualified than somebody without any kind of training. And it certainly depends on what kind of vet / what animals they primarily treat and the vet‘s specialisation…

Anyone can deliver a baby - mothers are generally quite good at it as it generally happens quite naturally!

Did he deliver the baby then or did you?!
I live very rurally and birth before the midwives arrive happens occasionally. Twice to my best friend, who rolls her eyes every time someone says her husband delivered her babies. She likes to say, she delivered them, he simply caught them and if he wasn't there she'd have caught them herself 🤣
Seriously though, I think if there's been no medical assistance at all (even checking stats etc) then anyone who happened to be there didn't actually deliver the baby.

Turkey teeth for dogs?

I'm not sure I'd trust a Vet to deliver a baby, I saw one helping to deliver a calf, he put his arm up the cows V and pulled it out the calf by the legs. No thank you.

Better a Vet than a GP. GP's rarely do Ops, while Vets often seem to.

My sister is a vet and I’ve twice been on a plane with her when the call for a medic came over the tannoy. The first time three doctors sprang up and she carried on watching her film. The second there happened to be no medical professionals on board and so she, alongside a trained first aider ended up having to (successfully) deal with a cardiac episode.

She has never had to deliver a baby though, and I’m not sure I would trust her to deliver mine but that’s more because she is my sister than that she is a vet. That having been said, when we have been on holiday holidays to very remote places, I have always felt a little bit of comfort knowing that she could probably Pull out all the stops in a dire emergency.

Less shaving.

Perhaps, but (unlike films) often it's better to leave the bullet where it is!

As others have said, anyone can help in delivering a baby, as the mother does 99.9% of the work if nothing goes wrong.

But a c-section? Well, in the apocalypse, a vet would certainly have a much better chance of performing a c-section with the mother surviving than the average person would, just because they're experienced surgeons...but I still think the chances of survival for the mother would be very low.

Oh! It also depends though if it was an emergency, or if the vet had a few weeks to study up on anatomy and technique in preparation, I think. That might give the mother a better chance of survival.

Very efficient though! 🤣 Over and done with in five minutes.

No. I barely trust them near my teeth 😄. Can you imagine the charge for canine 72 teeth treatment?! Plus, no scope to upsell Botox or veneers etc

Sample of one but my friends partner is a vet and she gave birth to their second child at home in the bathroom and he just froze and was absolutely useless.

So not necessarily no but maybe different if not their own baby as greater professional detachment?

Ha, I had one locum dentist who called me a good girl and patted my cheeks(!), I should have felt patronised, but secretly I always want the dentist to tell me how good I have been 😂