The answer: somewhere in the middle and, increasingly, closer to the bottom. This week, the University of Chicago reported results of its most recent study on job satisfaction. Clergy and artists came out first…waiters and bartenders dead last. Human docs? Somewhere in the middle, despite their high salaries, proving yet again that money doesn’t buy happiness.

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Do you have a large or giant breed dog? Then you should know that bloat (aka, gastric dilatation-volvulus) is a surgical emergency worthy of any gut-wrenching Emergency Vets episode.

Great Danes, Wolfhounds, German shepherds, Dobermans, Labs and other deep-chested large breeds (including mixed breeds with similar proportions) are especially at risk due to loose gastric ligaments that allow a...