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Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
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Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon Customer Reviews
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Empathetic and fascinating
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Dr. Nick Trout is the vet you wish you had, calling your pet "sweetheart" and working with skill and compassion to keep your animal friend happy and healthy. He understands the intense depth of feeling that people can have for their pets. In Tell Me Where It Hurts, Trout tells fascinating stories from his quarter century of being an animal surgeon. The empathy he has for both animals and people spills from every page.
I'm a sucker for books about animals, especially from a veterinary point of view. I grew up devouring James Herriot's wonderful books ([[ASIN:0312330855 All Creatures Great and Small]], [[ASIN:0312330863 All Things Bright and Beautiful]], [[ASIN:0312966555 All Things Wise and Wonderful]], [[ASIN:0312335326 The Lord God Made Them All]] and [[ASIN:0330443453 Every Living Thing]]).
Tell Me Where It Hurts is just as well-written and addictive as these classics. I forgot I was reading a book and felt immersed in the life of this caring doctor and the noble, funny animals he treats.
Along the way, Trout describes the amazing progress made in the past couple of decades in veterinary science. Procedures that used to be only for humans -- organ transplants, joint-replacements, chemotherapy, MRIs -- are now available options for animals. The costs can be incredible, and pet owners sometimes have hard choices on whether to proceed or not. Dr. Trout says he is ultimately always asked the same question: "And if she were your dog? What would you do?"
In the book Dr. Trout condenses his 25 years of veterinary practice into a single very busy day, which starts at 2:47 a.m. with an emergency wake-up call. A 10-year-old German Shepherd with a life-threatening stomach problem requires emergency surgery. Even with a stomach about to burst, the old dog wags her tail when they meet. The book ends late at night, at 10:02 p.m., with this same old dog.
What a journey in between. |
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