There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.
"But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, Time Magazine, December 12, 2002.
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