Increasingly, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) is taking stands on animal welfare issues and I, for one, am gratified to see our professional organization acting in ways I believe are consistent with our larger mission as animal health professionals.

But safeguarding animal health and welfare doesn’t stop with household pets like dogs and cats, of course. One area in which...

I’ve been clicking away at this keyboard for over two years. I’ve written almost a thousand posts on the ups, downs and sideways of veterinary medicine and life as a vet (901 with this entry). And I’ve yet to be offered a book deal. So it goes, woe is me and all that…

Then here comes this vet surgeon from out of nowhere and writes a memoir about being a vet surgeon at Angell Memorial in...