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Love Is the Best Medicine
What Two Dogs Taught One Veterinarian about Hope, Humility, and Everyday Miracles
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From instant New York Times bestseller, Dr. Nick Trout comes another touching and heartfelt story from the front lines of veterinary medicine—the story of two dogs who forever changed the way he thought about life, death, fate and love.
Helen is an older cocker spaniel found neglected and abandoned in a restaurant parking lot one rainy night. Despite her mangy condition and terrible smell, Ben and Eileen fall in love with the pitiful creature and decide to take her in. But just as Helen is rescued from a sad life on the streets and enveloped in a loving home with all the creature comforts an old dog could ask for, a tumor is discovered and she's given a devastating prognosis. All Ben and Eileen want is for Helen to beat the odds and survive for one more summer so that she can have one chance to swim in the ocean on the family's annual trip to Prince Edward Island. In short, they want a miracle.
Meanwhile, fourteen-month-old miniature pinscher Cleo keeps breaking one leg after another which devastates her poor owner, Sandi. While Cleo is visiting Sandi's daughter, Sonja, in Bermuda, she succumbs to yet another fracture. Distraught that the injury happened on her watch, Sonja makes a plan to fly Cleo to Boston to get the specialist care she needs before Sandi even finds out. Enter Dr. Trout who presides over what should be a fairly routine surgery. What happens next forever links two families, their dogs and a beloved veterinarian and teaches them all a lesson about grace that resonates to this day.
Love is the Best Medicine immerses you in the true life drama of beloved pets whose lives hang in the balance. Every page underscores the profound bond we have with the animals in our lives and the incredible responsibility Nick carries as their healer. Certainly Dr. Trout has an impressive array of fancy equipment, training and skills at his disposable, but his most important tool (as he persuasively illustrates here) is a fundamental belief in the power of hope, humility, and grace.
Wry, charming, and intensely affecting, Love is the Best Medicine is a one of a kind story only the winsome Dr. Trout could deliver and is destined to become a favorite for animal lovers.
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- ISBN: 9780767931991
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April 1, 2010
One vet, two dogs, two illnesses, two very different outcomesmeet Helen and Cleo. Helen is a ten-year-old black cocker spaniel mix. Apparently left to her own devices for most of her life, she's a survivor and an excellent judge of character. Fourteen-month-old Cleo is a miniature pinscher brought into this world by the finest of breeders and carefully handpicked by her devoted owner. Even at such a young age, Cleo possesses the gift of empathy, providing joy and comfort to everyone she meets. Serendipity and circumstance bring both into the care of Trout, andalthough neither dogs nor owners ever meetthe lives of everyone associated with these two fine animals are intrinsically entwined in a true story of tragedy, faith, and renewal. VERDICT Trout, a surgeon at Boston's Angell Animal Medical Center and best-selling author of "Tell Me Where It Hurts", delivers his heartfelt account with a humorous introspection that reaffirms the extraordinary level of caring veterinarians can have for their patients. Highly recommended for lovers of animals of all shapes and sizes. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 11/1/09.]Judy Brink-Drescher, Molloy Coll., Rockville Ctr., NYCopyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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February 15, 2010
Veterinarian Trout offers up a surefire comfort read for Animal Planet fans with this intimate look at the lives of two dogs and the people who loved them. By focusing on the trials and tribulations of the older abandoned cocker spaniel Helena and the much-coddled miniature pincher puppy Cleo, he juxtaposes their lives and then brings them together in Boston at the Angell Animal Medical Center, where readers will find themselves in an animal ER. Deeply passionate about his work, he manages to write about his patients without anthropomorphizing. The focus here is not clinical, but rather embraces the connections we make with our pets and even animals we barely know. This book is unusual in how it emphasizes how Cleo and Helena came to be in their owners lives, making the final outcome of their illnesses that much more poignant. (Yes, get ready for a tear or two.) Easily traversing the border between science and society, Trouts chronicle will appeal to readers from teens to grandparents.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)
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