What compels us to enter the field of veterinary medicine? More importantly, what keeps us here? You may wonder why, when you have been on your feet for ten hours with no lunch break, when you are covered with blood, feces, and vomit, when you have just argued with your boss and you’ve had to euthanize your favorite patient. Yet you’ll wake up the next day, pull on your scrubs, walk through the doors of your practice, and face another day of poop and puppy kisses, high maintenance clients and th