![]() Both books would be excellent gifts for your vet, even if he only treats cats and dogs. All My Patients Have Tales is a heartwarming and funny collection of stories by a dedicated veterinarian featuring wild horses, porcupine-quill-covered dogs, male cats in labor, an extremely ornery pygmy donkey, an enormous hog, as well as many ot. The setting takes place in the south west. As a nonprofit public-interest publisher, we leverage books. Publication date 2006 Topics Wells, Jeff, Wells, Jeff, D.V.M, Veterinarians - United States - Anecdotes. If I had to rate this book I would give it 4 out of 5 stars. The New Press amplifies progressive voices for a more inclusive, just, and equitable world. All my patients have tales : why veterinary medicine is a true calling by Wells, Jeff Camerer, June. This book is about Jeff’s life and how he survived being a veterinarian all in a set of hilarious stories. These are wonderful stories but more importantly Wells gives an eye opening vista into veterinary medicine. I read the book All My Patients Have Tales by Jeff Wells. Read 135 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. The stories he relates range anywhere from the Scottish Highland cattle that had him racing across the pasture for dear life, how he tricked a ewe into nursing an orphaned lamb by putting Vicks in it’s nostrils, and how he saved an old man’s mule, his child, at Christmas and how he was thanked by hearing the old man saying it was the “best Christmas ever”. Remember these animals often times are their children, and sometimes even more so. ![]() A Vet must not only take the patient into consideration but also the “parents” of the patient. The stories he tells are both heartwarming and compassionate. It is very difficult to transport a thousand pound animal to the vet, especially when they are sick. Wells does not work the standard 8 to 5 shift, he is often called out in the middle of the night and sometimes drives for over an hour to get to his patient, yes, and he makes house calls. Wells is a Vet in rural Colorado who takes care of not only cats and dogs but the likes of horses, cattle, and llamas. All My Patients Have Tales is a charming, funny, and engaging collection of stories in the great tradition of All Creatures Great and Small by the late James Herriot. These books are a little off the norm because Wells is not a Vet in a city or suburban location who basically takes care of cats and dogs. When I read Jeff Well’s first book, “All My Patients Have Tales”, I wrote that the book should be required reading for all those aspiring to become a part of veterinary medicine, and especially those aspiring to be Doctors of Veterinary Medicine. /rebates/2fproduct2fdetail2fall-my-patients-have-tales-favorite-stories-from-a-vet-s-practice-9780312606398&. “All My Patients Kick and Bite” by Jeff Wells, D.V.M., published by St.
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