[nabs-l] blind doctors

[Sarah Alawami]

I might suggest talking to a guide dog school if you want to maybe train service animals or at least talk to them to see if you can intern there when it comes time.

That's all I can help you with but good luck with your endeavors.
On May 5, 2010, at 9:46 PM, Valerie Gibson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> For a while know I've been bouncing around ideas of things i would like to do as a carreer when i finish my gen ed classes, and while i find a lot of things interesting, i keep coming back to the thought of, "I'd really like to work with animals".  
> 
> Ever since i was seven i've wanted to become a veterinarian...that is until someone told me, when i was thirteen, "well, i wouldn't take my dogs to you". surprisingly, this wasn't a sighted person who told me this.
> 
> Well, i ran across an article somewhere about a blind guy who got his M.D, and it got me thinking, why coudln't I be a vet? Even if there aren't a bunch of blind doctors, at least there are some.
> I think on the side, i'd like to become a certified dog trainer as well.
> 
> So, what i want, all steriotyping aside, is to become a certified obedienace dog trainer, and if i can maybe train some sort of service dog like search and rescue or therapy dogs.
> 
> As well as, train to become a vet tech, and if i really like what i do, advance my schooling to become a full fledged vet.
> 
> My questions are:
> 1.  What do you think of these jobs for a blind person?
> 2.  Does anyone know of anyone who could help me overcome any sort of obsticles that i could come up against in getting these jobs?
> and 
> 3.  i guess this goes along with question 2, but is there anyone who's working for an M.D and would you be willing to email me off list or something so that i can pick your brain about how you got through, or are getting through, it?
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