Well, I need to put together a letter because of the emergency room vet who didn't know squat about insulinoma in ferrets -- not a complaint letter. No, I want to change things not cause animosity, and it isn't that vet's fault that most vet schools teach nothing or next to nothing about ferrets. Instead this will be the sort of letter we all used to need to share with vets except it is going to be easier to compose. Back then information was hard to get -- sometimes exceedingly hard to get. Now, pointing people to useful URLs and vet texts goes a very long way. Here are some of the URLs I so far plan to include (along with a selection of short quotes unless I ask the authors for permission to copy and pass the pieces on and get those permissions): http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org which has about 2 and 1/2 years worth of veterinary queries and replies on many health topics and is easily searched -- handy for a vet who doesn't know ferrets, and he needs to also know about A/V Node Block. http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/ferrethealth mostly for the Node Block info this time http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html this time largely for the insulinoma article and ones on the ways that ferret interpretations differ those for other domestic species, but it is a real treasure trove, especially for vets. http://home.att.net/~hhoefer/ferret_insulinoma.htm and other pieces at her site http://www.lbah.com/Ferrets/insulinoma.htm, http://www.petcarevabeach.com/insul.html, http://www.bradleyhills.com/ferret/publications.htm make good additions to further emphasize the main points. The goal is to try to improve what the vet knows. He had trouble not knowing the specifics of ferrets and he really wasn't good with people, but he obviously deeply cared about the animals, so why not help him have the tools he needs to follow through from that love of animals into being able to better serve them? That way everyone wins. [Posted in FML issue 4295]