You may wonder what this rant has to do with veterinary medicine, but be patient. I’ll get there. “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take […]
Category Archives: Specialists
Today a lady arrived at our door with a drooling, twitching puppy, and around a half-gallon of insecticide. It had been a full gallon when she left the house. When she returned home from her errand, she found the puppy in considerable distress. He had chewed on the spray-tube apparatus, and managed to drain half […]
Well, it seems like only yesterday that I was writing about the importance of consulting a specialist, and here we have a case in point. Jack looks a lot like the cat in one of our favorite pictures, “The Favorite Cat”. A print hangs in our family room. He’s an older cat, and he has […]
My tag-line that follows my signature on Veterinary Information Network is “I’m lost, but I’m making good time.” When I am putting a puzzling case up for consultation, I have already done one of two things. One is, I’ve done everything I know how to do, and I’m still stumped. The second is, I’ve reached […]