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September 2010 - Posts

Happy Birthday Equine ER! E-book giveaway!

Today we’re celebrating Equine ER’s first birthday – the nonfiction book by Leslie Guttman, published by Eclipse Press, came out roughly a year ago. As a special gift to readers of this blog, we’re giving away the Equine ER e-book free for a limited time. Email equineer@leslieguttman.com up until midnight PST TONIGHT (9/21/10), and you’ll receive the e-book this week. Again, that is the electronic... Read More

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Foaling season: Did the newborn filly survive?

Last week in our excerpt from the book Equine ER chronicling 24 hours during foaling season, an exhausted vet received an emergency phone call informing him that a foaling mare was in trouble. He rushed back to the clinic. The foal was delivered, but whether she would live was in question. On the gurney, intern Dr. Julie Wolfe clamped and cut the newborn filly's umbilicus, and Dr. Bryan Waldridge inserted... Read More

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Foaling season: an exhausted vet, an emergency phone call

After working over 36 hours straight, a tired vet gets an emergency phone call in our continuing excerpt from the nonfiction book Equine ER chronicling 24 hours during foaling season at one of the country's top equine hospitals. Down in the intensive care unit, Dr. Bryan Waldridge’s extra-large filly had fought her colic for twelve hours and won. She was weak but stable. The puffy foal across from... Read More

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