Jennifer Mangler's Reviews > The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality

This was not what I was expecting or hoping for, but I did still enjoy parts of the book. I freely admit that I skipped over all the sections that discussed euthanasia/end of life (and there were a LOT of them scattered throughout the book) because my family has had to deal with it too much in the past few years, so I can't comment on those portions of the book. Fine's experiences as a woman in a profession that didn't have many women (or welcome them) were interesting, and I love how she wrote about the relationships she formed with the animals and their people on her house calls (side note: I would vastly prefer this to the stress of taking pets into a clinic setting whenever possible).

Reader warning: if you struggle with reading about animal death this is not the book for you.