A review by booksanddachshunds
The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us about Love, Life, and Mortality by Karen Fine

emotional informative

5.0

Veterinary has been a career path that I would’ve loved to go into- so I quite appreciated to read her background, and her quite difficult path into the career she wanted. It was even more saddening to see how hard it was for a woman to pierce into careers back then, although she was one of the many to have it more accessible than ever before.

It also gave me new insights- Iknow i’ve been going to the same vet ever since I got my eldest, almost 10yrs ago now (and more, as we went with my family’s animals too) so we really trust her. Karen has been explaining how seeing the house where the animal live and their normal behavior helps alot when trying to find what’s wrong with them, and also how she got to see some of her regular patients & their humans as part of her family; and that really warmed my heart 🥰
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