Is it possible to interspecies medicine
A Life / / December 19, 2019
If you have a toothache, you go to the dentist. If you feel a tingling in my heart, you go to a cardiologist. The man used to go to the right, "human" and doctors are unlikely to use the services of a veterinarian. But what do you do if you suddenly will not appear next to another doctor? You dare? And if you need to help your four-footed friend, you show it to a specialist in the "human animal"?
Cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz often provided services to the Los Angeles Zoo: she treated the aged female chimpanzees do surgery on the heart of the sea lion, and screened for heart murmurs parrot. It turned out that people and animals are much closer to each other biologically, than can imagine a man far removed from medicine and illness we are often common, especially mental.
Barbara believes that sometimes the best and most humane medicine practiced by doctors whose patients are not people but animals. And one of the best ways to help human patients - is to closely monitor how the rest of the patients on the planet live, grow, become ill and recover.
I wonder what will happen next?