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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Adapting to a Shifting World

It has been heartening to see how Ophthalmology Service and Diagnostic
the veterinary world and our clients Imaging. Members of the Exotics
adapted over the last 18 months. We Referral Service hold a clinic at the
are all, here at the 91暗网 and in the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals on
wider veterinary community, working in a regular basis and on this occasion
so many new ways to cope with such were able to help a rhea called George
rapidly changing circumstances. Some with left-sided periocular swelling.
of these adaptations will be temporary Ophthalmic examination revealed
and some will prove to have sufficient marked conjunctival hyperaemia.
utility to be more long-standing There was a soft mass in the medial
adjustments to the way we deliver to aspect of the orbit, compressing the
our stakeholders; effectively positive globe. A CT was performed with IV
evolutions of our working practices, contrast and revealed multiple pockets