Essential reference for students studying to become veterinary assistants and a great tool for support of professionals and their teams working as assistants in the field. In six laminated pages and using the QuickStudy format our author has shared the most valuable need-to-know facts to be a successful student and caregiver for our animals we see ......
Today's therapy dog handlers recognize the need to be teammates with their dogs, not just supervisors. Teaming with one's dog involves unobtrusively providing physical and emotional support as well as respectful guidance in what to do. Being a teammate requires attention to the handler's behavior, not just the dog's. This book reminds all handlers ......
Every term you should ever need as a veterinarian or as an assistant is in this one 6 page laminated guide. Author and veterinarian Dr. Chris Pinney ensured this tool will support students and professionals alike with a quick reference that will beat any other, offering such broad coverage while being easy to carry, store, and reference at a ......
Compassion Fatigue in the Veterinary Profession, Revised Edition
"Compassion fatigue is a very real problem in veterinary medicine-and in any profession in which caregivers face repeated, long-term exposure to the suffering and loss of others," writes Kathleen Ayl, PsyD. "When left unaddressed, the condition can lead to career dissatisfaction, high employee turnover rates, and even substance abuse or suicide." ......
A Forgotten Contagion and the Fate of Reconstruction America
Seven years after the US Civil War and nearly 150 years before COVID, horses near Toronto began falling deathly ill with a sickness soon diagnosed as influenza. It took just a few weeks for this mutant flu variant to spread throughout southeastern Canada and into the northeastern US, infecting more than 90 percent of horses, donkeys, and mules ......
In the late 1970s the golden valley between Utah's Wasatch Mountains was home to some of the best dairies in the country. That was also where Linda Rhodes, a newly minted large animal veterinarian, had to prove that a woman could do what the Mormon dairymen were sure was a man's job. She was often scared that they were right. Throughout her ......
A veterinarian is arguably the most broad-based medical practitioner, a "One Health" provider. Such a practitioner understands the intersections and overlap of animal health, human health, and the shared environment between the two. Pigs, Pets, and Public Health captures the multi-faceted expertise that such work requires and shows us how rural ......
Using in-depth interviews with veterinary students, Identity, Gender, and Tracking: The Reality of Boundaries for Veterinary Students explores the experience of enrollment in an educational program that tracks students based on the species of animals that they wish to treat. The identity of a veterinarian is one characterized by care; thus, ......
Using in-depth interviews with veterinary students, Identity, Gender, and Tracking: The Reality of Boundaries for Veterinary Students explores the experience of enrollment in an educational program that tracks students based on the species of animals that they wish to treat. The identity of a veterinarian is one characterized by care; thus, ......
