Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Crafts, Hobbies & Home, Humor & Entertainment, Medicine, Medical Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Crafts, Hobbies & Home, Humor & Entertainment, Medicine, Medical Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Helpful Score: 2
(read in May, 2010) (review from goodreads.com)
This is going to be one of thos difficult reviews to write - it probably won't be a "review" like most in the end. The inside flap states that this will be irresistible to animal lovers. I don't think that's true. I know more than a handful of animal owners who would not like this at all.
In my experience most animal owners/lovers/parents who read "animal books" read said books for the personal stories. While this was a personal story, it wasn't like any other I've ever read.
This is far, far, more interesting to someone wanting to learn about the actual experience of being a vet. This is notably different than "just" being an animal lover. I wouldn't say to stay away if your sqeamish exactly but there is much talk of surgical proceedings as well as other medical situations. There are definitely a good amount of "personal" stories about a patient and his/her family but they were short and don't really fill up that whole that would be there if you were expecting anything else.
This read sort of slow for me also - maybe because of the medical aspect of it, as interesting as it was. I've said this since I started the book and having ended it I feel it even more strongly - I wish Trout lived near me. I've been through a handful of vets and never, EVER have I come in contact with a vet like Trout. He seems to REALLY care about the animals he takes care of. Even if he doesn't wear his feelings on his sleeve, it's obvious the caring is there. The last vet I had was so damn uncaring I actually had to take my animals away from him. Even though he was a decent vet. I'd rather have a capable vet who cares for my pets.
Now, I have to add this..... Can anyone tell me the chances of me reading two books, back to back, totally unrelated in everything including subject, that both talk about not only "ferret-legging" but the "King of Ferret-Legging" Reg Mellor? I mean, seriously? What are those chances? I have never, in all of my 32 and some change years, heard of ferret-legging. I've heard of ferrets. I've heard of legs and leggings. But never did the two go together. I really wish there was a way for me to calculate the chances of this. If the urban fiction I'm reading mentions ferret-legging I'm going to start watching t.v. - that'll be too damn scary.
This is going to be one of thos difficult reviews to write - it probably won't be a "review" like most in the end. The inside flap states that this will be irresistible to animal lovers. I don't think that's true. I know more than a handful of animal owners who would not like this at all.
In my experience most animal owners/lovers/parents who read "animal books" read said books for the personal stories. While this was a personal story, it wasn't like any other I've ever read.
This is far, far, more interesting to someone wanting to learn about the actual experience of being a vet. This is notably different than "just" being an animal lover. I wouldn't say to stay away if your sqeamish exactly but there is much talk of surgical proceedings as well as other medical situations. There are definitely a good amount of "personal" stories about a patient and his/her family but they were short and don't really fill up that whole that would be there if you were expecting anything else.
This read sort of slow for me also - maybe because of the medical aspect of it, as interesting as it was. I've said this since I started the book and having ended it I feel it even more strongly - I wish Trout lived near me. I've been through a handful of vets and never, EVER have I come in contact with a vet like Trout. He seems to REALLY care about the animals he takes care of. Even if he doesn't wear his feelings on his sleeve, it's obvious the caring is there. The last vet I had was so damn uncaring I actually had to take my animals away from him. Even though he was a decent vet. I'd rather have a capable vet who cares for my pets.
Now, I have to add this..... Can anyone tell me the chances of me reading two books, back to back, totally unrelated in everything including subject, that both talk about not only "ferret-legging" but the "King of Ferret-Legging" Reg Mellor? I mean, seriously? What are those chances? I have never, in all of my 32 and some change years, heard of ferret-legging. I've heard of ferrets. I've heard of legs and leggings. But never did the two go together. I really wish there was a way for me to calculate the chances of this. If the urban fiction I'm reading mentions ferret-legging I'm going to start watching t.v. - that'll be too damn scary.
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