The Highland Vet

A Year at Thurso

De: Guy Gordon, The Thurso Veterinary Team

Narrado por: Guy Gordon

Brought to you by Penguin.

Discover the charms and challenges of working at Scotland's most northerly mainland veterinary practice.

From conducting farm animal caesarean sections in the early hours to missing family plans in order to treat critically injured pet dogs, no two days in the work of vet Guy Gordon and his team are ever the same.

Based in Thurso, Northern Scotland, the small group of vets and their supporting staff cover a vast area of more than 1,000 square miles. The incredibly wild and rural landscape in which they operate brings a huge variety of work depending on the seasons, with the delivery of newborn lambs and calves in the spring, and the arrival of seal pups to the Northern Scottish coast starting in the autumn months.

The Highland Vet shows what working in one of Britain's most beautiful and remote locations really involves. Inside, Guy and his team share the high and lows, up and downs and ins and outs of their daily work throughout the course of a year, making this a truly magical celebration of Scotland's Northern Highlands, as well as the animals and people who call the region home.

©2022 Guy Gordon and The Thurso Veterinary Team (P)2022 Penguin Audio

The Year At Clinic, Told Through A Life Story

This is actually a much better book than I had first assumed. It had me laughing and crying, cringing and whooping over the victories. This is basically a live story of an impressive veterinarian, told through the lens of numerous short stories throughout a year at the Highland practice. It is a perfect blend of enough information that other veterinarians (or Students) can appreciate each situation, but not into too much detail to loose those not in the profession. At some points it may seem as if there are many points where the Author rambles, but most of them are actually related to the end idea of the chapter (surprisingly!), and actually relay more of how the author views the world. Everything is related to something else, and through the Authors extensive knowledge and pragmatism we are also introduced to the extreme romanticism that he holds his life and this profession in.

the narrator ruins this completely

Ihave no reason to doubt that there wonderful story in this somewhere. I do not doubt the authors skill as a vet, nor his Integrity. He is not right as a narrator.