Placebos for Pets?, Brennen Mckenzie, VMD, MSc
Placebos for Pets?, Brennen Mckenzie, VMD, MSc
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Placebos for Pets?
The Truth About Alternative Medicine in Animals

Author: Brennen Mckenzie, VMD, MSc

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Unabridged: 11 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/12/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Whether online or in the local pet store, there are a bewildering variety of pet healthcare products and services to choose from. Diets and supplements, ancient herbs and folk remedies, and even high-tech treatments like hyperbaric oxygen tanks and laser therapy. Everything promises to give your pet better health and a longer life, and isn't that what every pet owner wants?

But how do you know if all of these products do what they claim? Are they safe? If they really are miraculous cures, why are so many offered only on the internet or by a few veterinarians specializing in "alternative medicine?"

Brennen McKenzie, a vet with twenty years of experience and the former president of the Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine Association, helps pet owners and veterinary professionals understand the claims and the evidence, allowing them to make better choices for their companions and patients.

About Brennen Mckenzie, VMD, MSc

Brennen McKenzie, VMD, Msc is a small animal general practitioner in private practice in California. Dr. McKenzie writes and lectures internationally on the subject of evidence-based veterinary medicine, and he is the author of the SkeptVet Blog and a contributor to the Science-Based Medicine blog.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lucy on December 21, 2019

Misrepresents natural remedies and alternative treatments of all kinds and makes their followers look like nutjobs. Anti-natural types will eat it up.......more

Goodreads review by Marit on February 13, 2023

Loved it! As a veterinarian who hasn’t taken much interest in alternative/complementary medicine, this was an interesting introduction into everything that's being offered to pet parents out there. Dr. McKenzie’s style is humorous yet informative and I really liked the structure if three questions h......more

Goodreads review by Eileen on December 21, 2019

Fantastic. Reviewed it on my blog at [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Kate on April 02, 2023

I highly recommend this book for people who want to cut through all the hype and marketing to understand alternative medical treatments for animals, or for people who want to understand a little more about the scientific process and how that can be applied to veterinary medicine. I would also like t......more

Goodreads review by Océ on May 10, 2025

As a (soon to be 🙏) veterinarian with a passion for the mechanisms behind beliefs, I loved reading this book. Everything in it is detailed, backed up with numerous sources, which is more than appreciable! And in addition, it's very accessible, even to a totally neophyte audience, and I think that's......more