Sophie’s Choice: Supervet in the Field (TV Review)

Published by Student Rag:

Hearing the phrase “bionic supervet”, you’d be forgiven for assuming that pioneering veterinary surgeon Noel Fitzpatrick is some kind of superhero from a comic book. But you’d be wrong. This extraordinary vet is not a fictional character from a colourful comic strip but is in fact a real person who is changing the world of veterinary science and pioneering new treatments and technologies, the likes of some aren’t available even to humans in medical science.

Creating his own inventions with everything from bionic limbs built into the patient’s skeleton to ground-breaking spinal surgeries that make the lame walk once more, Fitzpatrick is a bit of a Doctor Victor Frankenstein for animals – except he uses his powers for good, not evil.