[Magdalen] Physician?

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I'm told it is more competitive to get into a good DVM program than an
equivalent people program.

Vets know that unless they can get into a practice in an affluent area,
they will never make much money, and it's not as if it is the most
prestigious occupation.  It takes a certain kind of temperament to be able
to examine a small, non-verbal patient who usually is trying very hard not
to tell, even by any non-verbal cues, what hurts.

The physiology is often incredibly small too.  They certainly get my
respect.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 4:01 AM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Vets are "Doctor" here too and jolly well rightly so.
>
> They study for as long as human doctors, covering much of the same
> territory in basic sciences; and their patients are not only unable to
> explain how they feel, but very often feel the need to defend themselves
> with teeth and claws or mighty kicks.
>
> They also have to learn how to treat and heal several - sometimes many -
> different species from dogs, cats, horses and farm animals to birds and
> reptiles as well as a range of wildlife.
>
> Their patients can be worth as little as a couple of million dollars for a
> top race horse, or as much as a human owner's entire heart - especially
> children and the elderly.
>
> Let's hear it for the vets!
>
> Sally D
>
> On Friday, 15 January 2016, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm not so sure about the "physician" name or title, but around here, the
> > title "Doctor" or "Doc" in ordinary speech and address goes to vets, MDs,
> > DOs, chiropractors, dentists, anybody who works on the body, human or
> > animal.  With or without an academic doctorate in anything.  Maybe not
> > barbers, hairstylists, manicurists, farriers or masseurs, though I think
> a
> > few hundred years ago a barber was automatically a surgeon.
> >
> > Oddly enough, I somehow got the title "Dr" attached in front of my name,
> > just because I'm subscribed to Science magazine, though I guarantee that
> I
> > never told them that I had a doctorate in anything, or put it on my
> checks
> > or my subscription form.  I am a member or the American Association for
> the
> > Advancement of Science, which I pay for in order to get the magazine. I
> > hope that doesn't spread across the mailing lists from there: someone
> might
> > think that I wrote it down deliberately.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/15/16 10:48 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I spoke on telephone last night and today with a veterinary  specialist
> >> caring for our sick spaniel.  She was struggling to put some facets  of
> >> her examination into lay terms, and to make it easier for her, I
> >> mentioned
> >> that I was a physician.
> >>
> >> Her response surprised me.  She said, "Oh....of humans?"
> >>
> >> The inference I think was that veterinarians - maybe especially
> >> specialist veterinarians - now think of themselves as physicians.
> >>
> >> This may be just her own idiosyncrasy or in may be a more
> >> widespread practice, but I had not encountered it before.
> >>
> >> My handy Merriam-Webster doesn't apply it to non-human
> >> healers, but the second meaning, "One exerting a remedial
> >> or salutary influence," may cover this new meaning.
> >>
> >> She, and others in her profession are welcome to the physician
> >> label as I don't think the term has been copyrighted by the (human)
> >> medical profession.
> >>
> >> As one old craggy retired US Navy physician used to say  (between
> >> puffs on his chain-smoked Lucky Strikes), "I don't care what they
> >> call me as long as they pay the bill."
> >>
> >>
> >> David Strang
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Sibyl Smirl
> > I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> > mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
> >
>