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The winter holiday season is the setting for Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale The Little Match Girl. The story features a child, alone and outdoors in the freezing cold, sustained by visions of warmth, delicious food and a loving family. Like many fairy tales, The Little Match Girl does not have a happy ending. The tale of Esme the cat—told in the blogpost below—is very much like the story of The Little Match Girl, except Esme’s story will have a happy ending.

I hear a great deal of confusion from pet families about the role of veterinary internal medicine specialists. Much of this confusion seems to come from trying to map human medicine definitions onto veterinary specialists. For example, my personal physician—the doctor I see for routine care such as flu vaccines, cholesterol monitoring and the occasional minor illness—is a board-certified internal medicine specialist with expertise in primary care. In veterinary medicine, however, board-certified internal medicine specialists (like those at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center) do not typically provide routine care. Instead, they have additional training and skills to diagnose and manage complex medical conditions. In today’s blogpost, I will use the examples of pancreatic diseases to illustrate what a veterinary internal medicine specialist does and why their expertise matters.

Many of us are looking forward to Memorial Day, the traditional start of the summer season. Summer means enjoying the breeze through open windows, barbeques with friends and family, and swimming in the pool or at the beach. But if you are a pet, each one of these summer pleasures can turn into a summer tragedy, requiring a trip to an animal ER like the Level 1 Trauma Center at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center. This blogpost highlights three summer dangers and offers tips to prevent them.

As a veterinarian, the ever-popular 18th century English Christmas carol, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” inevitably reminds me of all the potential holiday hazards for your pet. Since we are in the thick of the holiday season, I’ll use that song as inspiration to summarize the risks that holiday celebrations pose to our true loves, our pets.

Some diseases occur worldwide, as we’ve learned all too well from the COVID-19 pandemic. But many diseases occur in specific geographic locations or are restricted to certain populations of humans