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Preface
This book was designed to provide a valuable resource for all things related to pet‐specific care, from prevention, to early detection, to evidence‐based treatment, guidelines, and facilitated compliance. It is an appropriate source of information to foster consensus building and a team approach to delivering excellent healthcare to animals.
The concept of pet‐specific care is relatively new in veterinary medicine (while the equivalent “personalized medicine” is now considered de rigueur in human medicine) and involves selecting appropriate services for pet and owner, based on both subjective and objective criteria, including breed predisposition, age, level of care requested by owner, risk assessment, appropriate guidelines, financial considerations, and many more aspects. While much of veterinary medicine has been reactive in the past, waiting for pets to develop problems before veterinary teams got involved, pet‐specific care is more proactive, focuses on keeping pets healthy, and considers approaches that span a lifetime rather than from one veterinary visit to the next. It also involves managing pets in a truly team‐based fashion, so throughout the book emphasis is given to the roles of team members in delivering excellent healthcare, communication, and client service. In addition to specific topics covered within the book, there is also a rich collection of appendices that provide additional resources, abbreviations, glossary, and breed tables of heritable conditions organized by canine and feline breeds, conditions, and breed attributes.
Whether you want to know how to provide genetic testing and counseling in practice, find
