At the Large Animal Teaching Hospital in Taastrup, in Copenhagen\u2019s outskirts, the day begins with doctors making their morning rounds. After the staff veterinarians and the veterinary students have checked in on all the patients in the hospital stable (primarily horses, but also a few cows, a sheep that\u2019s looking poorly and a goat that\u2019s eaten something that doesn\u2019t agree with it) it\u2019s time for the day\u2019s first operation: a three-month old foal suffering from an inguinal hernia, and who is also due to be castrated.
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It\u2019s 9:56 am, and the first patient of the day is ready to be operated on. He\u2019s three months old, weighs 190 kilos and is fully anesthetized. The five-person operation team is ready, too. For three of them, the surgery is part of their education. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":53691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","expression-feature_article"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n