09/10/2025
Today is ER Doctor Appreciation Day.
This work is messy. It’s relentless. It leaves marks you don’t always see.
Being an ER veterinarian means living in a world where seconds matter. Where you run toward the emergencies instead of away from them. Where you carry the knowledge that no matter how hard you fight, not every patient goes home. That weight doesn’t disappear when the shift ends.
It means sitting with families in their worst moments, holding their heartbreak in your hands, and somehow still finding words. It means saying “I don’t know” more often than we’d like, and still walking into the next exam room to try again.
There are nights the drive home is spent replaying every choice, every “what if.” Nights when the silence after losing a patient feels heavier than all the alarms that came before it. And still, the next shift comes, and they walk back in—because animals need us, and because this is where they are meant to be.
They are not a superhero. They are human. They miss their family. They second-guess themselves. They get tired. And they are deeply proud of this work, not because it’s glamorous, but because in the middle of chaos, they get to stand with pets and families when they need it most.
Today isn’t just about appreciation. It’s about acknowledgment—that this work is hard, it’s human, and it matters.
To all the ER veterinarians, may today be the rare shift where the coffee is hot, the patients are stable, and not a single client argues with “Dr. Google.”
Thank you to our wonderful ER Veterinarians!! If you know them you LOVE them, so show them some LOVE today!!
