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| Tell Me Where it Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon | 
| Author: Dr. Nick Trout
Creator: Simon Vance
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 275743
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
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| Customer Reviews:
 This should be required reading for people owned by pets... May 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Only those that work in the veterinary field know the joys and agony that can happen numerous times in a single day, if not in a single minute. We may have to euthanize an elderly patient that we all care deeply and are heartbroken at their passing then turn around and vaccinate a new puppy or kitten for someone and act like we are so happy to see them! Pet owners really don't have a clue. There is no wonder that those in the veterinary fields have a suicide rate that is 4 times the national norm. Think about that for a second....
Those of us that do this stuff day in and day out really wish that "normal people" had even slightest clue as to what we do, every day. Many of us have "warped" senses of humor that we wield like a sword to protect ourselves from running, screaming down the street, never to be seen again.
Dr. Nick Trout does an excellent job of trying to get all of these things across to the masses. We are going to feature his book in our new newsletter because his memoirs really tell it like it happens.
This is one of the best books on the subject and again, it should be required reading for anyone that shares their lives with animals.
 Verbose May 21, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
By the middle of this book I was fairly irritated by the wordy, bitchy, melodramatic way the author presented his patients' owners. I also would liked to have seen more clinical encounters (with pictures!) and fewer anecdotes.
Tell Me Where It Hurts May 19, 2008
I bought this book when it was reviewed in our local paper and I saw the front cover. I have a Boston Terrier that looked just like that poor little guy when I took him to see his vet not long ago. He felt so bad he didn't even greet his favorite vet the way he usually does. I had to have that picture so I took the book along with it. What an enjoyable writer Dr. Trout is. He should write more and maybe even fiction. It's truly one of those can't put down stories of real life people who try to make life better for others. My dream as a young girl was to become a veterinarian, but in those days women weren't encouraged to even go to college, let alone into a career such as that. It pleases me that today most new vets are women.
Tell Me Where it Hurts May 2, 2008
This was sent as a gift and the recipient was very happy with the book "on cd". We will borrow and listen at a later date. Thank you.
Tell Me Where It Hurts April 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Such a great read by a British Vet now working across the pond at a Boston animal hospital. I purchased two more copies for the doctors who have helped me with my animals over the years. Not only will practicing vets relate to the stories of miracles performed by this doctor so will any person who has ever cared for and loved an animal. This book is helping confirm my decision to go back to school and study veterinary medicine.
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