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Leslie Guttman is an independent journalist and freelance writer whose work has appeared in such publications as the Washington Post, Salon, Orion, and the San Francisco Chronicle, where she worked on staff for over a decade. Her awards include being honored by the Society of Professional Journalists for outstanding journalism. She's also worked as an editor at Wired magazine, and her public radio commentary has been broadcast nationally on Marketplace.

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10 Questions for Piaff's Vet

26 Jul 2009, 7:45 PM

For the past few weeks we’ve been serializing a chapter entitled “Piaff” from the new book Equine ER: Stories from a Year in the Life of an Equine Veterinary Hospital by Leslie Guttman (Eclipse Press, 2009). Piaff, a Dutch warmblood gelding, had a devastating case of equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), an infection of a horse’s central nervous system, from which he did not survive. (See previous...

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