DVM,Donald V. “Doc” Tebbe

50 Years a Veterinarian: Stories of Animals and their People

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Donald V. “Doc” Tebbe rolled into the town of Fort Recovery, Ohio, in June 1962 ready to get work as a veterinarian. More than fifty years later, he’s still practicing his craft. It’s a career he knew he’d embark on as a young boy, when his prized cow, Shirley, suffered complications while giving birth. He watched on in horror from a hay chute as the veterinarian, Dr. Steinke, began cutting off the calf’s legs, head, and ribs, yelling to no one in particular, “I hate to do this, but it’s our only chance to save the cow.” Both the cow and the calf died, and it broke Tebbe’s heart. That day, he vowed to become a better veterinarian than Dr. Steinke to make up for what he did to his Shirley. Tebbe has since had colossal failures that have made him realize how bad Dr. Steinke must have felt that day he failed. For instance, on his very first day of work, he accidentally killed a cat. Join a small-town veterinarian on some very big adventures in 50 Years a Veterinarian.
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287 printed pages
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
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    people we met at the restaurant and the two farms, especially the two fourth-graders that were going to be in her classroom when school started in September.
    It was a long day, but there was mostly satisfaction and a good feeling that we both had made the right decision in coming to Fort Recovery. We both felt that our
  • Bookmate Bookmatehas quoted6 years ago
    back then was on shared lines, so if you picked up the receiver and someone else was talking, it soon became multiple people participating in an unintended conference call.
    It was plain and simple ease dropping, and it was probably the favorite recreational activity in town. Absolutely everyone heard the
  • Bookmate Bookmatehas quoted6 years ago
    over at the same time, described the feeling of this brand new veterinarian and his wife as we came into the town of Fort Recovery, Ohio, our new home. Ten days earlier, graduating from The Ohio State College of Veterinary
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