How Animals Saved My Life: Being the Supervet

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Now, in this long-awaited memoir, Noel recounts this often-surprising journey that sees him leaving behind a farm animal practice in rural Ireland to set up Fitzpatrick Referrals in Surrey, one of the most advanced small animal specialist centres in the world. There’s some great messaging in there and some really interesting aspects but because of the writing style, it kind of got sucked into a hole of tediousness. Picking up this book I wasn't expecting to hear Noel mentioning the likes of George Floyd and the BLM movement, or his perhaps (in my opinion) rose tinted feelings towards droves of undocumented immigrants arriving on boats. In between I learned a lot about running a successful veterinary surgery and how Noel develops his techniques. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Two stars is not a reflection on the author but on the editing, even though it appears there were quite a few involved in the process. whereas I always thought 'you wouldn't allow an animal to suffer, so why allow people to suffer' but after reading this I do wonder if euthanasia is the 'easy option' for some vets.

It has been 30 years since Noel Fitzpatrick graduated as a veterinary surgeon, and that 22-year-old from Ballyfin, Ireland, is now one of the leading veterinary surgeons in the world. His life is dedicated to the animals he treats and his compassion for both animals and humans is heart warming. He is absolutely entitled to hold those opinions of course, but for me it often felt out of place in the book given the assumed subject matter.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It was just a bit too political from what I was expecting and having another person's politics preached at me is not what I personally enjoy in a book.When I was reading, I really felt like I was there because it was about his life in lockdown and I was reading it during lockdown. Secondly, how the author draws on the qualities he sees in animals – particularly pet cats and dogs, including his own. I think Noel has made great waves in the veterinary community and did find interest his discussions on one medicine, ethical implications of surgery and treatment and the process of said treatments.

I really, really love Noel, he's the best kind of human and I really enjoyed his first book which is why I opted to read this. pages on how veterinarian medicine needs some changes from a governance and ethics perspectives, whilst saying that he is happy to work in the current way. seeking to bridge the Veterinary Science/Human Medicine gap – which as he points out has taken an additional resonance with COVID. There was quite a lot of medical information in this book which was hard going at times, but apart from that, it was an extremely well-written memoir which I have no hesitation in highly recommending.A world leading orthopaedic-neuro veterinary surgeon who holds a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the first person to successfully apply an amputation prosthesis to a cat, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick obtained his Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from University College Dublin in 1990 and went on to set up Fitzpatrick Referrals in Surrey in 2005. I did find this difficult to read in places, a bit technical, so I found myself skipping over bits, but not too much. The narrative of "if you work for it you will get it" was so pervasive I found myself despairing and shaking my head numerous times. Growing up on the family farm in Ballyfin, Ireland, Noel's childhood was spent tending to the cattle and sheep, the hay and silage, the tractors and land, his beloved sheepdog Pirate providing solace from the bullies that plagued him at school. SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER It has been 30 years since Noel Fitzpatrick graduated as a veterinary surgeon, and that 22-year-old from Ballyfin, Ireland, is now one of the leading veterinary surgeons in the world.

This can be a difficult read not only because there is a lot of technical stuff in it but also because it can be difficult to see through the tears. This is not a light fluffy read by any means, it is gut wrenching and you will never forget reading it. His plan of "one medicine" that sets out to help both animal and humans equally without the (current) expense of a healthy animal's life should be the goal of both human and animal medicines. Lovely book written by a man who has many worries about his own life but concentrates on making animal lives much better. The overall structure of the book wasn't what I was expecting, it was split into chapters on personality traits/virtues, mostly explained through lessons he has learned from animals in his care and his two beloved pets.Throughout this book, we get more of an understanding of how Noel connects with animals on a deeper level and his love and caring of all animals that he comes across is extraordinary.