Physicians have complicated jobs, dealing with new situations they haven’t seen before all the time, while also working on problems they’ve been trained to do basically with their eyes closed. But interestingly enough, it is harder to get into veterinarian school today than medical school, plus they have to learn to treat so many different species.
It is most definitely possible that new insights could be gained when a doctor (who treats humans) has his or her perspective broadened.
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Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at UCLA Medical School, has stepped out of the average operating room for a doctor – she’s treated animals ranging from a lion to a macaw. She explains in this TED talk that so many of the symptoms, illnesses, and especially mental health complications, overlap between species.
Beyond testing medications on animals before putting humans at risk, how else can we take advantage of the animal kingdom to not only treat them better, but also to help us learn more about human beings?
[Photo from flickr user Army Medicine]
