I have to do a career project in math and I need to know how my career relates to math. I ended up choosing a veterinarian but I have no idea how it relates to math in any way. Can someone please help?
2007-03-10 12:21:12 · 6 answers · asked by rawr. 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Prescribing medications. Many drugs are prescribed on a mg/kg basis. So, you need to convert to see how many milligrams a patient needs per dose and so on. Along with drugs, veterinarians may be called upon to determine if an animal ate a toxic amount of a substance. Quite often you need to calculate it out to see if the amount is toxic or not. For example, while chocolate is toxic, small amounts of it might not reach the toxic level.
Anesthesia. Not only do the drugs you inject based on weight, but so are the inhalant gases and IV fluids.
Nutrition: Like in people, animals need a certain amount of calories per day. Veterinarians will calculate how much food should be offered to a pet per day, especially if they are ill. This gets even more complicated when you consider large animal diets. For large animal diets, you may calculate large rations that need to be formulated, so then you need to determine how much of each ingredient needs to be added to the ration as a whole.
Business: Veterinarian who own their own practice might not have a practice manager to handle the business aspects.
Epidemiology: Epidemiology is also present in the veterinary world as it is in the human world. That involves plenty of math (predictive values, odds ratios, etc).
There is more, but I hope what I mentioned helps.
2007-03-13 16:48:40 · answer #1 · answered by star_in_the_stream 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to open up your own business and be the head vet the you need to know how to do the taxes or how much to charge people for your services or add up the doses of medicine you need to inject into an animal.
2007-03-10 12:24:19 · answer #2 · answered by Me 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If a dog gets 10cc's of medicine for every 10 lbs, you need to know how much the dog weighs and mulitply by 10.
2007-03-10 12:27:45 · answer #3 · answered by Nc Jay 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well sometimes if you have to do surgery or declaw an animal then you need do know how to measure and know or estimate the lenght of something.
2007-03-10 12:24:40 · answer #4 · answered by Devin W 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need to know weights, mass, volume, etc to be able to correctly dispense medications.
2007-03-10 12:23:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
measuring med's you give the pet's shot's and such.
2007-03-10 12:23:22 · answer #6 · answered by conundrum_dragon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋