The Vet Will See You Now is best described as Kitchen Con­fi­den­tial meets All Crea­tures Great and Small. Using sto­ries as a back­drop, the book deliv­ers cur­rent vet­eri­nary infor­ma­tion that every pet own­er needs. It is a behind the scenes view of a vet­eri­nary hos­pi­tal show­ing read­ers what hap­pens on the oth­er side of the ​“employ­ees only” door. The sto­ries are irrev­er­ent, bit­ing­ly satir­i­cal on occa­sion, often humor­ous, and some­times trag­ic. Every sto­ry has a pur­pose, as does every chap­ter. The tar­get audi­ence is any­one who loves their pets. It is a com­pi­la­tion of what Barak has learned after thir­ty-five years in this pro­fes­sion. It deliv­ers the infor­ma­tion that peo­ple have been want­i­ng all those years in a plea­sure to read for­mat. The book is meant as a ref­er­ence of sorts, but also as a good read. The book chron­i­cles Barak’s life with pets. From a child­hood in Israel, to a stint in Zurich, Switzer­land, for three years, to the great city of Yonkers, New York. It is in a very small way the sto­ry of Barak’s life with ani­mals and what he has learned through each of the health dis­or­ders he’s treat­ed in his own pets.