Doctor Dogs
How Our Best Friends Are Becoming Our Best Medicine
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In this groundbreaking book, Goodavage brings us behind the scenes of cutting-edge science at top research centers, and into the lives of people whose well-being depends on their devoted, highly skilled personal MDs (medical dogs). With her signature wit and passion, Goodavage explores how doctor dogs are becoming our happy allies in the fight against dozens of physical and mental conditions.
We meet dogs who detect cancer and Parkinson’s disease, and dogs who alert people to seizures and diabetic lows or highs and other life-threatening physical ailments. Goodavage reveals the revolutionary ways dogs are helping those with autism, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and post-traumatic stress disorder. And she introduces us to intrepid canines who are protecting us from antibiotic-resistant bugs, and to dogs who may one day help keep us safe from epidemic catastrophe. Their paycheck for their lifesaving work? Heartfelt praise and a tasty treat or favorite toy.
The emotional element in Doctor Dogs delivers as powerfully as the science. You don’t have to be a dog lover to care deeply about what these dogs are doing and what we are learning from them—although if you’re not a dog lover, you probably will be by the end of the book.
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Release date
October 1, 2019 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593146392
- File size: 346502 KB
- Duration: 12:01:52
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Narrator Suzanne Elise Freeman delightfully narrates this work about dogs who assist sick kids and adults. This greatly helps the unwell, caregivers, and often doctors. Listeners will travel the country and the world to meet a number of canine service dogs and their companions, including Pippin, a psychiatric service dog whose assistance helps Elizabeth gain independence, and a dog who helps Samuel recover from his epileptic seizures more quickly. Freeman's warm style is particularly appealing when she describes her successful and less successful canine encounters using her self-deprecating humor. She makes her visits with doctors and quotes from studies fully understandable. Most heartbreaking is learning about how nonthreatening dogs work with very young children who have been sexually abused. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
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