
Little Miracles Everywhere
My Unorthodox Path to Holistic Veterinary Medicine
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Join holistic veterinarian Marcie Fallek on an unconventional healing path that puts love of animals and their wellness first. In this funny, honest, and illuminating memoir, Marcie Fallek, a skeptical New Yorker and animal lover, embarks on a journey to become a veterinarian. She begins her quest at an Italian veterinary school, where most students flunk out. Her struggles lead her to India, in search of Divine help. She vows, following a series of cathartic experiences there, to devote her life to caring for animals, with her conscience as her guide. Eventually licensed and working, Marcie discovers that the driving force for many of her colleagues is money, not a love of animals. Unscrupulous vets fake test results, perform unnecessary procedures, and prescribe drugs and food to line their pockets. In fact, Marcie discovers that many of the very prescriptions and procedures designed to heal her charges might, in fact, be leading to more injury and illness. Though she risks losing everything that took so long to build, she sets out to learn the truth. This quest is not without consequences. Yet Marcie stays true to her ethical compass, refusing to compromise her morals and values. At each dark turn, a succession of instances (coincidences? miracles?) leads her down an unconventional healing path, where her spiritual and professional self merge. Marcie finds her true purpose in life: healing animalsāincluding those destined for end-of-life measuresāusing her wits, wisdom, intuition, love, and holistic care.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Divine Intervention Needed
- Chapter 2: Seeking Creature Comforts
- Chapter 3: A Rod and a Promise
- Chapter 4: A Divine Coincidence
- Chapter 5: From Butcher to Binger
- Chapter 6: Ten Weeks to Chutzpa
- Chapter 7: Partners, Pallini, and Prosciutto
- Chapter 8: The Doctor Makes a Deal
- Chapter 9: An Alternate Reality
- Chapter 10: Wait, More Tests?
- Chapter 11: Cows Kick Sideways
- Chapter 12: DIY Doctoring
- Chapter 13: Castration to CATastrophy
- Chapter 14: Chop Chops and Veal Chops
- Chapter 15: Bovine, āer Divine, Intervention
- Chapter 16: Pass the Nutmeg
- Chapter 17: From Shabby to Chic
- Chapter 18: āMr. Newman in Room Oneā
- Chapter 19: Two Hearts Opened
- Chapter 20: Just Like the Ashram
- Chapter 21: A Friend and a Firing
- Chapter 22: āKill the Kittensā
- Photos
- Chapter 23: Like Brothers I Never Had
- Chapter 24: Diagnostics and Detective Work
- Chapter 25: A Crash Splits the Air
- Chapter 26: A New Business
- Chapter 27: Get Used to It Now
- Chapter 28: A Punch in the Gut
- Chapter 29: A Curious Cause
- Chapter 30: A New Path Appears
- Chapter 31: Ten Bucks an Hour
- Chapter 32: āThis Will Never Breakā
- Chapter 33: A New Way to Heal
- Chapter 34: A Growing List of Miracles
- Chapter 35: Parting Ways
- Chapter 36: Countdown to Aspen
- Chapter 37: Cause and Effect
- Chapter 38: Roadkill for Dinner
- Chapter 39: Risks vs. Benefits
- Chapter 40: From Godās Mouth
- Chapter 41: A Deadly Prognosis
- Chapter 42: A String of Successes
- Chapter 43: A Death and Resurrection
- Chapter 44: A Thanksgiving Miracle
- Chapter 45: Dreams of Manhattan
- Chapter 46: The Right Wrong Number
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments