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Elizabeth L. Gordan '98, who decided during the second semester of her junior year to become a small animal veterinarian, and who will attend the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School next year, says she relied on a Harvard alumnae who is now a veterinary student at Tufts University for advice. However, Gordan says she wishes she had more people in the field to talk...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pre-Vets, Pre-Meds Coexist | 3/31/1998 | See Source »

...could have majored in animal studies atCornell and tracked myself," says Shanies, whoplans to be a "wildlife or exotic animals"veterinarian. "[But] I wanted a well-roundededucation. I don't think I expected Harvard tohave that little knowledge of the profession,though. There really was none...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pre-Vets, Pre-Meds Coexist | 3/31/1998 | See Source »

Noise is the least of it. Aircraft exhaust killed a wheat field next to the runway, Pickard says, and several years ago, Pickard's cattle came down with a mysterious affliction--heifers losing weight, their eyes pale and blank. His veterinarian finally traced it to the water supply, Lytle's Creek, which had been contaminated with ethylene glycol from Airborne's de-icing operation. Local environmentalists have met with Airborne's lawyers, and the company is studying the problem. But with winter here, the de-icer is flowing again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ESCAPE | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...Mexico for the latest miracle cure, many pet owners take the alternative route because they have nowhere else to turn. "By the time they come to me, the choices are pretty much either try alternative medicine or put the animal to sleep," says Susan Wynn, a veterinarian in Atlanta. Wynn, like all other licensed vets, was thoroughly grounded in Western medicine before she turned to unconventional treatments. Some owners seek alternative pet care because they use it for themselves. Other humans have even started taking their pets' medicine. Glucosamine and chondroiton sulfate, two compounds that have been used for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ST. BERNARD'S WORT | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...helps, if you're a holistic vet, to be sensitive to your clients' needs and to deliver whatever level of New Age exoticism they're comfortable with. Although veterinarian John Limehouse of Toluca Lake, Calif., is partial to traditional Chinese and homeopathic treatments, he tends to diagnose and describe his patients' symptoms in familiar Western terms. Sometimes it's easier to tell an owner that a dog has irritable bowel syndrome, he says, than to invoke the Chinese concept of "life force" and explain that an animal has a "deficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ST. BERNARD'S WORT | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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