As in…”Sometimes I feel like a fomite.” OK, so that’s not quite right but it’s how I felt today after my early morning emergency tanked out two hours after his arrival. He’d succumbed presumably as the result of some mysterious infectious disease. “Tanked out”: as in… “Dead.”

A fomite is the F-word  we use to refer to inanimate objects that carry infectious diseases. Our shoes, for example,...

Some clients are sweet as sugar…but clueless. Here’s a recent example: Owner on her way to a ballet recital with her daughter spies kitty in the driveway unable to rise. Pressed for time she scoops him up and encloses him in his top-clip cardboard kitty carrier. Arrives ten minutes later to drop him off with a complaint of: cannot walk.

Thus informed by the reception staff after the client’s...