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Week 2: What would you do with an injured stray?

Well, it’s been a week now and it is time to look in on our green-shod friend Raul and his hapless stray dog and see how he fared. Sincere, thanks to all the Petconnection.com community for your thoughtful (and very creative, if somewhat off-kilter) ...

From DR. TONY JOHNSON, Pet Connection Blog,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Joe Six-Pack

What would you do with an injured stray?

I thought it might make for some interesting and controversial stuff  to get all interactive and write about a thorny topic: the medical care of injured strays. It might seem, at first blush, like veterinarians would love this sort of thing: A busted ...

From DR. TONY JOHNSON, Pet Connection Blog,  14 Nov 2009

A pet owner’s gratitude

I have written mostly about some of the tragedies that I have seen and dealt with while here at the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine. ER work, unfortunately, has a shadowy side, and there are lots of times when things don’t go the way we ...

From DR. TONY JOHNSON, Pet Connection Blog,  2 Nov 2009

Uncharted waters: Life and death in ICU

This isn’t going to end well, I thought. The five of us stood in a semi-circle in ICU, trying to figure out what to do. Between us there must have been 30 years of clinical expertise at least, and we were at a loss. Among our number was an intern – a ...

From DR. TONY JOHNSON, Pet Connection Blog,  20 Oct 2009

Massive fee hikes planned at University of California

University of California employees and students chanting "Whose university? Our university!" express outrage over planned fee hikes at the regents' meeting Wednesday in San Francisco as a plainclothes police officer, right, watches over the proceedings. ...

From JULIE JOHNSON AND TONY BIZJAK, Sacramento Bee,  17 Sep 2009
Related Topics: John Garamendi

Trial by fire: Fighting for lives in the ER

Their limp bodies came in to our ER at Purdue one by one, victims of a house fire. Tragically, the dogs had been sleeping in the one room in the house where the fire started and was contained: the laundry room. They came without much warning, leaving ...

From DR. TONY JOHNSON, Pet Connection Blog,  16 Sep 2009

Constraints Loom for Swine Flu Vaccine

Worldwide, drug companies are scrambling to manufacture a vaccine for H1N1, also known as swine flu, which was declared a pandemic in June 2009. David Fedson, an expert in influenza vaccines and a former consultant to the World Health Organization, ...

From DAVID FEDSON AND TONI JOHNSON, Council on Foreign Relations,  15 Sep 2009
Related Topics: World Health Organization,  Winston Churchill

A 'Pretty Slow Recovery'

Ahead of the upcoming G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, finance ministers met on September 5 and expressed cautious optimism that financial markets were stabilizing and the global economy improving. But CFR Adjunct Senior Fellow Steven Dunaway, who agrees ...

From STEVEN DUNAWAY AND TONI JOHNSON, Council on Foreign Relations,  10 Sep 2009
Related Topics: International Monetary Fund

It’s Animal Week on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’

One of my favorite radio programs, NPR’s “Fresh Air,” is running Animal Week this week. While not quite as gripping as Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, this comes in a close second by a whisker. They are spotlighting animal related articles and ...

From DR. TONY JOHNSON, Pet Connection Blog,  1 Sep 2009
Related Topics: NPR,  Discovery Channel

A view from the inside of a teaching hospital

It’s the end of my first week at the teaching hospital at Purdue School of Veterinary Medicine.  It’s interesting to see veterinarians here in all stages of training, from green first-year students just learning what it takes to treat patients (and ...

From DR. TONY JOHNSON, Pet Connection Blog,  25 Aug 2009

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