Poop Watching

I spend a large part of my day looking at poop. No, really. In the veterinary world, poop can tell you an awful lot about a patient that they can't tell you in words: what they've eaten, what isn't quite getting digested, if they have any parasites along for the ride, etc. On average, I think I spend an hour or so each day looking at poop under a microscope. This is very much like my life: you can stare at the small pieces and try to identify what they are, what they mean, how to fix them, but in reality, the big picture tells you that it is nothing but a pile of poop.