Please join us for our FL JCC’s Summer Virtual Author Series.

Monday, June 9 at 3:30 pm with Karen Fine, author of The Other Family Doctor.

A heart­warm­ing mem­oir about one wom­an’s career as a vet and the unique role pets play in our lives. Karen Fine always knew that she want­ed to be a vet and was­n’t going to let any­thing stop her: not her aller­gy to cats, and not the fact that in the ’80s vet­eri­nary med­i­cine was still a most­ly male pro­fes­sion. Inspired by her grand­fa­ther, a com­pas­sion­ate doc­tor who paid house calls to all his (human) patients, Dr. Fine per­se­vered and brought her Oupa’s prin­ci­ples into her own prac­tice, which empha­sizes the need to under­stand her patients’ sto­ries to pro­vide the best pos­si­ble care.

Woven into Dr. Fine’s sto­ry are, of course, also the sto­ries of her own pets: the birds, cats, and dogs who have taught her the most valu­able lessons — how car­ing for the ani­mals in our lives can teach us to bet­ter care for our­selves, espe­cial­ly when life seems precarious.

Dr. Karen Fine is a holis­tic vet­eri­nar­i­an who is fas­ci­nat­ed by the rela­tion­ships between ani­mals and their peo­ple. She is an asso­ciate vet­eri­nar­i­an at Cen­tral Ani­mal Hos­pi­tal in Leomin­ster, Mass­a­chu­setts. For twen­ty-five years she owned and oper­at­ed her own house call prac­tice in cen­tral Mass­a­chu­setts. Dr. Fine is cer­ti­fied in vet­eri­nary acupunc­ture through the Inter­na­tion­al Vet­eri­nary Acupunc­ture Soci­ety. A lead­ing expert in the emerg­ing field of vet­eri­nary nar­ra­tive med­i­cine, she has also authored a text­book called Nar­ra­tive Med­i­cine in Vet­eri­nary Prac­tice.

Topic: The Other Family Doctor with author Karen Fine

Time: Jun 9, 2025 03:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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