Emergency Vets
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Emergency Vets is a reality television series that airs on the U.S. cable network Animal Planet. First aired in 1998, it depicts the working and outside lives of the veterinarians at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital in Denver, Colorado, plus the animals that they treat. At its peak of popularity, Emergency Vets alternated with The Crocodile Hunter as Animal Planet's most popular show.
The show stopped first-run production in 2002. In 2004, a new documentary called E-Vets: The Cutting Edge aired on Animal Planet, showing the changes in Alameda East Veterinary Hospital since the show's final episode. The documentary scored good ratings and has been rerun several times as part of the Whoa! Sunday umbrella anthology show on Animal Planet, as well as inspiring a follow-up episode first aired in 2005 that took viewers on a tour of the new Alameda East facility while showing cases of animals receiving cutting-edge treatment at the new hospital. Another documentary, Emergency Vets 20 Most Unusual Cases, aired on Whoa! Sunday in 2006, featuring 20 cases from the series including follow-ups with the families and interviews with the doctors involved.
In 2007, Animal Planet announced that the real-life drama at Alameda East would return to prime-time airwaves under a new title, E-Vet Interns. The new series features six new veterinary interns during their first year of residency practice at the new Alameda East hospital, as well as familiar faces Dr. Robert Taylor, Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, Dr. Preston Stubbs, and Dr. Holly Knor. In preparation for the new show's debut on January 22, 2007, Animal Planet aired a new E-Vets special, E-Vets: Things Pets Swallow, featuring memorable cases from the Emergency Vets years dealing with dramatic objects animals swallow.
[edit] Veterinarians
Among the veterinarians featured on the show:
- Dr. Robert A. Taylor, founder of Alameda East, who specializes in orthopedic surgery
- Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, general practitioner who specializes in treating exotic animals, especially reptiles
- Dr. Steve Petersen, surgeon who left the hospital and the show in 2000
- Dr. Mark Albrecht, surgeon who replaced Petersen in the 2000 season; departed the hospital before the start of the 2001 season
- Dr. Preston Stubbs, surgeon who replaced Albrecht after his departure in the 2001 season
- Dr. Dan Steinheimer, chief of radiology and director of Alameda East's intern program
- Dr. Holly Knor, general practitioner
- Dr. Andrea Oncken, general practitioner who left the hospital and the show in 1998
- Dr. Rani Pheneger (now Reyter), graduate of the Alameda East intern program who left the hospital and the show in 1998
- Dr. David Panciera, internal medicine specialist who left the hospital and the show in 1998 to take a professorship at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia
- Dr. Doug Santen, internal medicine specialist
- Dr. Jeff Steen, graduate of the Alameda East intern program who joined the staff as a general practitioner in 2000
- Dr. John Fiddler, former vet technician turned veterinarian; graduate of the Alameda East intern program who left the hospital and the show in 2000
- Dr. James Bailey, world renouned consulting veterinary anesthesiologist; working closely with Drs. Taylor and Fitzgerald.
