the.com/veterinary medicine
Human medicine, except the patient can't tell you where it hurts or consent to anything.
means The branch of medicine devoted to preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease and injury in animals.
from From Latin veterinae, 'beasts of burden' (oxen, horses, mules), itself possibly linked to vehere, 'to carry or draw' — the animals that pulled carts and plows. A veterinarius was originally someone who tended sick draft animals, a practical trade long before it became a licensed profession; the word carried that working-animal history into modern English, even though today's patients include housecats who have never pulled anything in their lives.
- species range
- one vet may treat goldfish and giraffes same week
- pain signals
- animals hide illness until it's nearly fatal
- anesthesia math
- dosing scales wildly between a hamster and a horse
- zoonotic link
- most new human pandemics start in animals first