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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.

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.

November is American Diabetes Month. To highlight how veterinarians care for pets with diabetes, I thought I would tell the story of one of my patients, a fluffy, grey and white

The pancreas is a thin, elongated organ that is shaped a bit like a pounded piece of chicken tenderloin. The pancreas lies along the initial portion of the small intestine

Recently, I highlighted a common pancreatic disorder in dogs, pancreatitis. The following day, the New York Times “Well Pet” blog wrote about a much less common, but equally serious pancreatic