Almost A Real Doctor: One Veterinarian's Struggle to Survive in a Dog-Eat-Dog World

As a child of the sixties, growing up in the New Jersey suburbs, he delivered kittens, rehabilitated wildlife, and inherited his mother's love for animals; there he found the spark to pursue a career as a veterinarian. However, first, he had to overcome an unsupportive father, a belittling academic advisor, three colleges, and financial hardship. In vet school, he struggled as a mediocre student, aggravated the assistant dean, challenged a combatant intern, punched out a fellow student, while avoiding the wrath of the chief of surgery. Then the naïve Jersey boy worked his first year as a farm animal vet wrestling a pregnant sow, dodging a one-ton Brahma bull, splitting open a rotting cow on a sunbaked Missouri field, and bluffing his way from one farm call to the next. A year later he returned to New Jersey where life really got tough.

This uniquely candid retrospective reveals the truth behind a largely misunderstood profession defined by fluffy reality shows and fanciful stories. Most books ask, "Who wants to be a veterinarian"? Almost A Real Doctor asks, "Are you sure you want to be a veterinarian?"

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Almost A Real Doctor: One Veterinarian's Struggle to Survive in a Dog-Eat-Dog World

As a child of the sixties, growing up in the New Jersey suburbs, he delivered kittens, rehabilitated wildlife, and inherited his mother's love for animals; there he found the spark to pursue a career as a veterinarian. However, first, he had to overcome an unsupportive father, a belittling academic advisor, three colleges, and financial hardship. In vet school, he struggled as a mediocre student, aggravated the assistant dean, challenged a combatant intern, punched out a fellow student, while avoiding the wrath of the chief of surgery. Then the naïve Jersey boy worked his first year as a farm animal vet wrestling a pregnant sow, dodging a one-ton Brahma bull, splitting open a rotting cow on a sunbaked Missouri field, and bluffing his way from one farm call to the next. A year later he returned to New Jersey where life really got tough.

This uniquely candid retrospective reveals the truth behind a largely misunderstood profession defined by fluffy reality shows and fanciful stories. Most books ask, "Who wants to be a veterinarian"? Almost A Real Doctor asks, "Are you sure you want to be a veterinarian?"

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Almost A Real Doctor: One Veterinarian's Struggle to Survive in a Dog-Eat-Dog World

Almost A Real Doctor: One Veterinarian's Struggle to Survive in a Dog-Eat-Dog World

by Robert Cimer
Almost A Real Doctor: One Veterinarian's Struggle to Survive in a Dog-Eat-Dog World

Almost A Real Doctor: One Veterinarian's Struggle to Survive in a Dog-Eat-Dog World

by Robert Cimer

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Overview

As a child of the sixties, growing up in the New Jersey suburbs, he delivered kittens, rehabilitated wildlife, and inherited his mother's love for animals; there he found the spark to pursue a career as a veterinarian. However, first, he had to overcome an unsupportive father, a belittling academic advisor, three colleges, and financial hardship. In vet school, he struggled as a mediocre student, aggravated the assistant dean, challenged a combatant intern, punched out a fellow student, while avoiding the wrath of the chief of surgery. Then the naïve Jersey boy worked his first year as a farm animal vet wrestling a pregnant sow, dodging a one-ton Brahma bull, splitting open a rotting cow on a sunbaked Missouri field, and bluffing his way from one farm call to the next. A year later he returned to New Jersey where life really got tough.

This uniquely candid retrospective reveals the truth behind a largely misunderstood profession defined by fluffy reality shows and fanciful stories. Most books ask, "Who wants to be a veterinarian"? Almost A Real Doctor asks, "Are you sure you want to be a veterinarian?"


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538006313
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date: 07/10/2019
Edition description: 3rd ed.
Pages: 332
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Dr. Robert Cimer was born in a small suburban town in Southern New Jersey. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Rutgers University and earned a degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Missouri-College of Veterinary Medicine in 1988. The first year following graduation he practiced farm animal medicine in a small town in Central Missouri then moved back to New Jersey to practice small animal medicine for the next thirty years. He founded a successful companion animal practice in Central New Jersey in 2003. He was an associate professor at a local community college teaching two veterinary medical courses, one geared for children, another for adults. He is married and has three children. He has owned everything from a white mouse to an Alaskan Malamute and continues to see new furry patients every day. He is currently working on his second book, a sequel to Almost A Real Doctor, titled: Finally, A Real Doctor. In addition, he is planning his first children's book: The Pet Posse. The story of five abandoned pets pulling together to survive the perils of Superstorm Sandy.

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