Gifts For Doctors and Veterinarians

Our Christmas ornament veterinarian gifts are 6 inches tall. The Santa veterinarian gifts have a full white beard and mustache. The Santa gifts for the veterinarian are wearing a red Santa hat, white lab coat over a red shirt with a green tie, green slacks, and black shoes. The Santa gifts for veterinary doctors have a stethoscope to his ears. The gifts for the veterinarian are holding a small brown teddy bear. The veterinarian Christmas gift is checking the bear�s heart with the stethoscope. The gifts for veterinary doctors hang from a red, satin ribbon.
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Veterinary Medicine.
Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the diseases of animals. Doctors that treat animals are called veterinarians. Veterinarians are trained to prevent, diagnose and treat illness in large and small animals. Their work is especially valuable because many animal diseases can be transmitted to human beings. Such diseases, called zoonoses, include rabies, brucellosis or Bang�s disease, tuberculosis, psittacosis or parrot fever and tularemia or rabbit fever.
In cities, the main activity of veterinarians is the care of dogs, cats and other household pets. Most veterinarians in cities are associated with animal hospitals. These hospitals often contain equipment much like that used in hospitals for human beings. There, animals may be cared for during illnesses and surgery may be performed to treat an illness or injury.
Many veterinarians are associated with the public health services of cities, states or the federal government. The special skills and knowledge of these doctors are helpful in controlling zoonotic diseases. Veterinarians may inspect meat and meat products in slaughtering and packinghouses. They may also work in laboratories testing milk or other dairy products or preparing serums and vaccines.
On farms, veterinarians are concerned chiefly with the care and treatment of livestock. Veterinarians help keep farm animals in good health and work to prevent outbreaks of animal diseases. Epidemics of animal diseases or epizootics, may be extremely dangerous, not only to the animals, but also to human beings. Modern vaccines have made it possible for veterinarians to protect farm animals against many diseases. Young hogs must now be vaccinated against the disease hog cholera. At one time, hog cholera often swept from farm to farm, killing all the hosg in an entire farming community.
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Veterinarians have played an important role in controlling bovine tuberculosis, a form of tuberculosis that can be passed from cows to human beings. In 1917, the federal government began a program to wipe out this disease. A cooperative plan set up by the federal and state governments allows veterinarians to test dairy cattle for tuberculosis. Another project works to control and eradicate bovine brucellosis. This disease also can be transferred from cattle to human beings.
People who want to become veterinarians must have at least two years of preveterinary college work, followed by four years of study in a college of veterinary medicine. In veterinary school, students study such subjects as anatomy, physiology, microbiology, pathology and surgery.
There are 27 colleges of veterinary medicine in the United States and 4 in Canada that are accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association. These schools offer courses of study that lead to the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine or D.V.M. or V.M.D. After earning a degree, the graduate must comply with the license regulations of the state in which he or she plans to practice.
After receiving a license, the veterinarian may go into private practice. Veterinarians may also be employed in government service. A veterinarian interested in research may want to work with the United States Public Health Service, the United States Department of Agriculture, and agricultural experiment station or a college. Some veterinarians teach at colleges of veterinary medicine or work in commercial laboratories the t produce serums and vaccines. Other career opportunities for veterinarians include working at animal shelter, race tracks, zoos or serving in programs sponsored by such agencies as the Peace Corps and the World Health Organization.
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