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the only medical field where the patient never explains what hurts and might bite the diagnosis.
means the branch of medicine focused on preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease and injury in animals.
from from latin veterinae, meaning beasts of burden — the same root that once meant simply working animal, before the job expanded to house cats and iguanas.
training lengthoften longer than human medical school requires
species rangeone vet may treat parakeets and elephants
first vet schoolfounded in france in 1762
public health roletracks diseases that jump from animals to humans