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Dr. Michael Trapani earned his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from U.C. Davis in 1982 and opened his first veterinary hospital in 1985. Dr. T. considers himself something of a dinosaur, a holdover from a time when the only veterinary specialists were at the university. With no big-city specialty centers available, rural practitioners of Dr. T's generation had to handle difficult cases on their own. This often meant performing procedures that contemporary veterinarians routinely refer to specialists because, in those days, the only other option was euthanasia. The great majority of those patients did well and Dr. T's current patients continue to benefit from that experience.

Compassionate caring for animals requires a veterinarian to have compassion for the human owners of those animals when difficult decisions must be made about a pet's disease or the need for euthanasia. Dr. T. understands that an ideal solution to an animal's illness is worthless if it requires something that the

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