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Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon |  | Author: Nick Trout
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
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Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 25151
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0767926447
Dewey Decimal Number: 636
EAN: 9780767926447
ASIN: 0767926447
Publication Date: March 3, 2009
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| • | Hardcover - Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon | | • | Hardcover - Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life As an Animal Surgeon (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series) | | • | Audio CD - Tell Me Where it Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon | | • | Audio CD - Tell Me Where it Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon | | • | Kindle Edition - Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon | | • | Audio Download - Tell Me Where It Hurts: Humor, Healing and Hope in my Life as an Animal Surgeon (Unabridged) | | • | Hardcover - Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon | | • | Preloaded Digital Audio Player - Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life As an Animal Surgeon |
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Product Description
It’s 2:47 a.m. when Dr. Nick Trout takes the phone call that starts another hectic day at the Angell Animal Medical Center. Sage, a ten-year old German shepherd, will die without emergency surgery for a serious stomach condition. Over the next twenty-four hours Dr. Trout fights for Sage’s life, battles disease in the operating room, unravels tricky diagnoses, reassures frantic pet parents, and reflects on the humor, heartache, and inspiration in his life as an animal surgeon. And he wants to take you along for the ride.…
From the front lines of modern medicine, Tell Me Where It Hurts is a fascinating insider portrait of a veterinarian, his furry patients, and the blend of old-fashioned instincts and cutting-edge technology that defines pet care in the twenty-first century. For anyone who’s ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at your veterinarian’s office, Tell Me Where It Hurts offers a vicarious journey through twenty-four intimate, eye-opening, heartrending hours at the premier Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston.
You’ll learn about the amazing progress of modern animal medicine, where organ transplants, joint replacements, and state-of-the-art cancer treatments have become more and more common. With these technological advances come controversies and complexities that Dr. Trout thoughtfully explores, such as how long (and at what cost) treatments should be given, how the Internet has changed pet care, and the rise in cosmetic surgery.
You’ll also be inspired by the heartwarming stories of struggle and survival filling these pages. With a wry and winning tone, Dr. Trout offers up hilarious and delightful anecdotes about cuddly (or not-so-cuddly) pets and their variously zany, desperate, and demanding owners. In total, Tell Me Where It Hurts offers a fascinating portrait of the comedy and drama, complexities and rewards involved with loving and healing animals.
Part ER, part Dog Whisperer, and part House, this heartfelt and candid book shows that while the technology has changed since James Herriot’s day, the humanity and compassion remains unchanged. If you’ve ever had a pet or special place in your heart for furry friends, Dr. Trout’s irresistible book is for you.
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As a Bostonian, I loved this book February 1, 2010
Sam's Show Mom (Walpole, MA)
This was a wonderful book that took me through a practice of a dedicated surgeon. I have to say that I enjoyed how he had us travel with him through each case, some quick and some long with all the different clients woven in. As someone who has sat in the waiting room at the MSPCA it is amazing how many people and pets come and go through there. I was happy to read a behind the scenes book of someone who truly cares and knows the happiness and heartbreak of pet companionship. This book truly does explain the many levels of vet service.
 fresh and inviting December 21, 2009
Michael Davey (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)
Nick Trout's book "Tell me where it hurts" is a few days in the life of a veterinarian. Its witty and touching. Nick also has a few flashbacks, one which tells how he came to be in the animal doctoring business.
Not only do we get a inside view of an animal hospital, we get some interesting facts on strange animal conditions and habits. Such as a slider, a turtle that had its penis half chewed off. We also meet a dog with a broken back who's owner is angry at the suggestion that the animal be put down, a cat that has eaten something and clogged its intestines. A lonely old man on social security who is desperately trying to save his only friend, while his daughter berates the vet for the worlds ills.
I listened to the CD edition, I found it to be one of the most interesting books I've listened to in a long time.
It'll make you want to be a vet, or at least get another dog.
 boring December 19, 2009
Ky
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is sooooooooo boring didnt think id be able to finish it....i like reading about animals but this book wasnt really about animals it was however about everything else....it went back and forth so much i forgot the point alot.....ive read better....waste of money
Love this book! December 16, 2009
Laura Dennis (NJ, United States)
Loved this book! I laughed, I cried, but most of all I just really enjoyed this book. I work as a veterinary technician so I can see it from the surgeon's side and understand. I had read it before and this copy I was buying for my mother.
Revealing October 13, 2009
Minnie Bourque (Denver, CO USA)
I loved this book! It's written from a veterinarian's perspective and is so informative as to a dog's personality and the medical issues related to them.
Very interesting!
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