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Reading “Origin” by J.A Konrath,
“Brief Book Description”
When linguist Andrew Dennison is yanked from his bed by the Secret Service and taken to a top secret facility in the desert , he has no idea he's been brought there to translate the words of an ancient demon.
He joins pretty but cold veterinarian Sun Jones, eccentric molecular biologist Dr. Frank Belgium, and a hodge-podge of religious, military, and science personnel to try and figure out if the creature is, indeed, Satan.
But things quickly go bad, and very soon Andy isn't just fighting for his life, but the lives of everyone on earth...”
So I’m about 38% through this book (I know because my kindle app tells me EXACTLY, it’s just cool like that). So, I’m suspending disbelief just enough to generally enjoy the story so far. Which is often necessary to some degree in many sci-fi/thriller type novels.
And then it just goes and totally ticks me off.
One of the main characters is a veterinarian. Actually she’s an M.D. who then became a veterinarian, “by studying at home.” Whatsit? Huh? Studying at home? Seriously, this author thinks you can just become a veterinarian, la-de-da, by “studying at home” !???!?!
Flipin. A. NOOOOO! I don’t care if you are already and M.D. and decide to have a career change to veterinary medicine, you are not going to become one by STUDYING AT HOME!!!!
As a veterinarian myself, I find this HIGHLY insulting.
Oh, then there is another character, who actually became a pediatrician because she just loves children but can’t socially interact with adults. Right. Because what do you think 99.9% of being a pediatrician is? Dealing with the freaking ADULT parents of said children.
So, so, moronic.
It’s like people who say they want to be a veterinarian because they love animals but hate people. I’ll tell you one thing right now, if you are young person who is having these thoughts. If you think you are going to be an awesome veterinarian but hate people and can’t socially interact with them you will fail, fail, FAIL as a veterinarian. Who do you think is going to care for and ultimately foot the bill for your animal patients? A human being, that’s who! And if you can’t communicate with said human being and be an advocate for your animal patient, you will totally suck as an effective veterinarian. Done, and done. Fail.
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I am a vet now (as you know) and even though I am a pseudo-people person, there is so much people interaction (and practically being their mum and shrink and some even try to make you their doctor...uhm, no I don't want to see your rash
There are so many differences between human doctors and vets, not the least of which is the vet needing knowledge of not just one species, but several! Humans and animals aren't so similar that you can just decide at random that you want to switch.
Thanks! (: (And go Beavs!
anyway, also agree on the "you have to like people" part. I wanted to be a vet for a LONG time, because I love animals, but I also love people, and helping them through the animals. Een though I settled on art, it's ridiculous to think of people thinking you can be a vet and hate humans. You might as well look for a job working for an animal sanctuary or something else, because I cannot think of any animal related job other than possibly animal trainer that requires MORE contact with people.
My boyfriend grew up going to a military academy and has done work for tons of branches worked for many countries, done defense work, etc... I love watching military films with him because he gets SO pissed at the blatant inaccuracies. My family does the same: mom worked in hospital for years, and brother is an aeronautical engineer for NASA, and I LOVE seeing bad science films with them. I can't even say the word "Armageddon" around my brother.
I'm an undergrad right now hoping to get into vet school in a few years, and a lot of the kids I know are pre-med kids who wonder why I want to be a vet and I always say I like animals more than people, which is true, but I work as bather right now at a grooming salon and I definitely see how you can't NOT work with people. Customers/clients are everything. But I don't mind most of the people I help, because of course for the most part, they love animals too.