[nabs-l] blind doctors

[William ODonnell]

In all seriousness, I would pursue this outside America since the attitude and general paradigm shift is still negative and not in hour favor.  There are many opportunities available now to travel abroad.  A good resource to start with is www.miusa.org.  Hope this helps.  I can state that when I have either traveled abroad or met those who have come here from other countries, the attitude towards us as blind people was generally positive and open-minded towards a progressive mind-set.  I am considering taking an MBA here and then using it to manage firms abroad since I plan on making a permanent move abroad.  


--- On Thu, 5/6/10, Valerie Gibson <valandkayla at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Valerie Gibson <valandkayla at gmail.com>
> Subject: [nabs-l] blind doctors
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010, 12:46 AM
> 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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