Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon | 
 enlarge | Author: Nick Trout
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 3614
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0767926439
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.0897092
EAN: 9780767926430
ASIN: 0767926439
Publication Date: March 11, 2008
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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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 The Pleasure And Pain Of Mending Our Four-Legged Friends June 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book makes me wish I had become a vet.
In "Tell Me Where It Hurts" Dr. Nick Trout explores the ups and downs of the life of a top tier veterinary surgeon. He compresses a lifetime of poignant, frequently funny, and sometimes heart rending experiences into a single exhausting day. I had thought about being a vet when I was young, and this book is closer than any other I have read to summarizing what the journey to skilled professional veterinarian is really like.
The book opens and closes with the story of "Sage", a German Shepard with a potentially life threatening stomach disorder. It is the perfect case to explain the uncertainties of the world of veterinary medicine, and ultimately serves to explain the trials and joys of the job. Along the way there are many detours, including sections on methods of veterinary training in different countries, the emotional tolls of the job, the changing demographics of the profession, and the increase in exotic animals in common practice. I was especially amused by the diversion into the world of "ferret legging" on p. 201. "Ferret legging is a centuries-old English sport in which the contestant stuffs a pair of ill-tempered ferrets down his pants." Several restrictions apply, including a total ban on undergarments of any sort. The winner is the person who can keep the ferrets in their pants the longest. The current record holder is a 72 year old Welsh coal miner named Reg Mellor who has kept two ferrets in his pants for the unbelievable time of five hours and twenty-six minutes. Humorous diversions such as this break the tension of the life-or-death decisions that the majority of the book deals with, and are a welcome relief after some of the more nail-biting sections.
My only critique of the book would be the rather enormous over-weighting of canine cases in the book, although I don't know if that is representative of Dr. Trout's practice, or if he simply prefers dogs to cats. Any animal lover should love and appreciate this book in its entirety, and I wholeheartedly recommend it.
 Not "All Creatures Great and Small" but pretty good. June 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Tell Me Where it Hurts is a good, short book that follows a day in the life of a veterinarian in a large small-animal practice.
The stories are a mixture of delight and heartbreak -- just like real life. Dr. Trout does a terrific job of describing the animals, their medical conditions, and I love that he refers to their owners as "their parents".
It probably isn't fair to compare it with "All Creatures Great and Small" that was a truly fantastic book.
 Way too much fuss made over pets. June 10, 2008
1 out of 14 found this review helpful
Yet another book about elevating pets to the levels of people. In fact, Trout seems to think a dog would make the best spouse. He also thinks its endearing for owners to be pathologically obsessed with their animals. He "respects" their delusions and will do all kinds of over-the-top surgeries on the pets to placate the owner's beliefs that their animal is their child or substitute mother or whatever. Trout calls pet owners pet "parents". He's one of the idiots that keeps this pet elevatation fad going.
The only good thing I can say about this book is that Nick Trout is a talented writer and surgeon. Too bad he chose to write about pets and too bad he chose to be a vet instead of a medical doctor. His writing and surgical skills are being wasted on lower species beasts.
Should be mandatory reading for animal lovers June 8, 2008
This book is so enjoyable that I almost read it in one sitting. It is a delight. If you love animals then get this one right away.
Stick to the story June 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wish Trout could finish one story without interjecting so many side stories. I found the book boring and repeatedly wished he would just finish one story before sticking other totally unrelated ones in the middle.
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