The movie Dr. Dolittle depicts a veterinarian who can talk to and understand his patients, the animals. This may add to the cultural assumption that veterinarians can connect on a level with animals that is different than others. It's not true, they just love what they do. It also adds to the theme that the only thing veterinarians do is private practice. This again, is not true. Like I've been explaining in my open blog posts, there are multiple ways you can use your DVM. It's not just so you can have your own clinic and work on cute little puppies all day. You can also work in the industry developing new medicine for humans and animals alike. You can work in a research lab with rats and mice discovering cures. You can work in the zoo and help to protect endangered species. Movies like the one pictured above have made people assume things about this field that may not always be true.
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