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Tell Me Where It Hurts

a Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as An Animal Surgeon
Jan 31, 2015savtadina rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this book. It is quite different from Herriot's books (although both were set in Great Britain) as Herriot was a country vet who wrote about a time when antibiotics were just coming into use and where he saw a lot of large animals and got to know their owners very well. Trout is a modern animal surgeon, writing by his experiences in the first decade of the 21st century, where he mainly deals with cats and dogs and some other unusual small animals. I learned a lot about how much veterinary medicine has improved and, therefore, why it is more expensive now to take my dog to the vet than it was 10 or 15 years ago. I also learned how much one much love to take care of animals to become a vet as the renumeration is not great and (esp for a surgeon) the hours can be quite long. The author takes a number of events in his practice and puts stories about them as asides as he goes through 24 hours in one busy day of work. I wasn't sure it would "work" when I read the introduction, but it fell into place well.