Bo Brock, DVM

Find out what happened to Dr. Bo Brock after being kicked by an anesthetized horse

How a cowboy with cancer and his horse with a leg injury made me realize why I became a vet

Trying to find time to sleep as a veterinarian is hard enough—especially when a family shows up on your doorstep in the middle of the night with a veterinary emergency.

Find out what happened when this veterinarian performed a skin graft procedure on a horse and collected healthy skin tissue a bit too close to the mane.

One veterinarian recounts a time when a bold and brash intern met her match when she crossed paths with a rattlesnake…or so she thought.

I learned a valuable lesson when dealing with gophers: always check your surroundings.

One veterinarian recalls a time that involved a fact-checking banker, his poodle, and a whole lot of fractions and strange laughter.

Mistakes can happen when you try to do too many things at once. But sometimes those mistakes pay off in mysterious ways.

As a newly minted on-call veterinarian, I made a fateful decision to bring my family along on a farm call. What they saw will stay with them forever.

Among the many lessons I learned in veterinary school were these: Don’t be late, and always be prepared.

Making the right diagnosis sometimes requires a site visit.

Sometimes sheer panic is the impetus for ingenuity.

A veterinarian’s keen eye saved not just a mare and filly that Sunday night, but also a long-lost treasure.

The love of a dog is endless, even when it’s their time to go.

An afternoon of errands turns into a full-on gamble—with wins all around.

As the new veterinarian in town, Dr. Brock wanted to cultivate a good reputation. But would he fail before he even got started?

When a client won’t stop talking for long enough to allow you complete your diagnostic evaluation, sometimes you have to resort to strange measures.

Sometimes you just can’t predict how your veterinary clients will respond.

How do you feel about ghosts, clowns, drowning, bankruptcy, heights and Freddy Kruger? This Texas veterinarian recently had occasion to analyze his own worst fears, and here’s what he learned.

Sometimes we all need a little help from momma, even when it comes to equine wound management.

How long should a veterinarian’s office desk chair last? That depends less on the quality of the chair and more on the pace of your work.

Being out of your element can be an interesting—and sometimes unpleasant—experience.

A phone call 20 years ago and decades of monthly writing changed my life. Maybe I’ve got a resolution for you that could change your life too.

You stand in a lot of lines as a veterinarian rushing between appointments to get a driver's license renewed at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Why my daughters day giving birth found this veterinarian, with sweat dripping off my plastic chair, curled into a comma shape, as standing or sitting up straight was like jabbing a dagger in my kidney.

Large- or mixed-animal veterinary practices located in towns expect some great escapes here and there. But why do these escape artists always seem to head for either the biggest highway in the county or a residential district?

When a veterinarian leaves the confines of the clinic (or the field, as it happens) and exists in the real world, you never know what might unfold. Dr. Brock shares his intimate experience at an airport.

As a performance animal veterinarian, Ive learned that if you get thrown from a bull, you have to get up and get back onunless that bull decides to land on you. Then you have to roll around and scream in pain.

Its hard to take a vacation as a veterinary practice owner, but I wouldve missed the nicest folks, the prettiest nature and a snapshot of a funny Florida lady and a U.S. vice president if I hadnt taken time off.

I got a lot of great qualities from Joe Benny Brock, but Im glad one small fear of his didnt get passed in the genes.