Tell Me Where it Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon | 
 enlarge | Author: Dr. Nick Trout
Creator: Simon Vance
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $17.83
You Save: $12.12 (40%)
New (35) Used (5) from $17.83
Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 407437
Format: Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 1602833486
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.0897092
EAN: 9781602833487
ASIN: 1602833486
Publication Date: March 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand New, Perfect Condition, Please allow 4-14 business days for delivery. 100% Money Back Guarantee, Over 1,000,000 customers served.
Tell A Friend
Add to Wishlist
Add to Wedding Registry
Add to Baby Registry
| |
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Pet Lovers Will Enjoy this Heartwarming Insider's Look at Life in an Animal Hospital. From the frontlines of modern medicine, Tell Me Where It Hurts is a fascinating insider portrait of a veterinarian, his furry patients, and the blend of oldfashioned instincts and cutting-edge technology that defines pet care in the twenty-first century. Dr. Trout takes the reader on a vicarious journey through twenty-four intimate, heartrending hours in his life; his wry, companionable voice offers enlightening and engaging anecdotes about cuddly (or not-socuddly) pets and their variously zany, desperate, and demanding owners. If you've ever had a pet or special place in your heart for furry friends, Dr. Trout's inspiring account of loving and healing animals is for you. Presented unabridged on 8 CDs.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...
 This veterinarian wholeheartedly approves November 20, 2008
Dr. Nancy Kay, author of Speaking for Spot - www.speakingforspot.com (Rohnert Park, California)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Thanks Dr. Trout for providing such an accurate, humorous, and educational portrayal of what our work is all about. Your stories truly represent what our day to day work is all about- a mixture of smiles and sadness. I hope your book will be read by animal lovers everywhere.
GREAT INSIGHTS on DOG health problems !!! November 7, 2008
Rominsky (Manila)
I enjoyed reading this book and couldn't put it down!
reading this book has greatly opened my mind on possible health problems my dogs will most likely encounter. made me more aware of my dogs and be more conscious that whatever small physical change i see in them could be a symptom of a certain disease or illness.
if you are a doglover, this book is definitely a must read!!
good read October 16, 2008
Marjorie Brown (Tampa, FL)
Fun to read, just a little wordy. Great for on the plane or while husband watches football game. Would like to see more from Dr. Trout.
Great read! September 8, 2008
Jean Card (usa)
What a lovely book. It's filled with interesting, humorous, empathtic stories. Gives you a better understanding of the relationship between humans and their beloved pets.
Loving Surgery, empathizing with animals, laughing at owners August 13, 2008
Mary A. Turzillo (Cleveland, OH United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A delightful book showing Dr. Trout's skill with narrative. The ongoing stories, of Sage the dog with the stomach that was literally turned, and Barron, the dog with the difficult and sad diagnosis, gave the book shape and narrative curve. I loved the cautionary story about the cat who had swallowed something stringy. The tangential material, both about Trout's own life (a young man massaging a puppy to life) and weird animal lore (ferrets in one's pants), provided rich and rewarding reading.
I do wish he'd had more cat anecdotes, of course, since I am a cataholic.
One tiny criticism: an ongoing villain in the story is Sage's owner's daughter, who is an engineer and holds a doctorate. If she was truly as unfeeling toward animals as Trout paints her, she no doubt deserves the disdain with which he paints her. (And I wonder if she ever picked up his book and recognized herself). BUT: doctors of engineering with Ph.D.'s are just as much doctors as veterinarians or MDs. They hold lives in their hands as much as do doctors of medicine or veterinary science.
Doctors of Engineering keep airplanes in the air and bridges from collapsing. The degree of doctor was invented before it was assigned by public opinion to medical doctors. So I wish Trout hadn't ended his book with the snarky comment, "Perhaps she {Dr. Hartmann} uses the title . . . to get bumped from coach to business." I have a Ph.D., but it sure never helped me get a better seat on an airplane! As to his supposition that she used the doctorate "to bully her way into our phone system," I have to ask if Angell Animal Medical Center is so elitist that the owners of poor dying animals have to bully receptionists to get information or help.
The length to which I've gone in this screed might suggest I don't like the book, but I did like it, He does anecdote very well, and it's clear he loves both animals and the art and technology of surgery, maybe the latter a bit more than the former. He conveys both loves beautifully.
|
|
|
