Chief Clinician
Dr. Patricia Walters
ARC Referrals > Internal Medicine
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| The Animal
Referral Center and The Animal Emergency & Critical Care Center is
proud to have Dr. Patricia Walters join our staff (Dr.
Walters will be working with both ARC & AEC services.) |
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Through the Animal Referral Center (ARC), she
will be accepting internal medicine referrals from area hospitals. Dr.Walters
offers scheduled office appointments for these referrals and will be exclusively
directing the diagnostics & medical treatments for referred patients. She
will also be in direct communication with the referring veterinarian who
will take over the management of the patient after discharge. Dr Walters
is currently the chief clinician for the internal medicine arm of the ARC. |
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Dr Walers will also be working with the
Animal Emergency & Critical Care Center (AECCC) staff offering internal
medicine consultations in addition to seeing emergency cases and managing
some of our most critical hospitalized patients. She is currently working
weekdays, Monday through Thursday. |
| About Dr. Walters |
| Dr. Walters graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania where she also completed an internship and 2
residency programs including Small Animal Internal Medicine and Veterinary
Emergency & Critical Care. After achieving board certification in 2
specialty fields, Dr. Walters moved up to Massachusetts where she worked
for 3 years at South Shore Veterinary Associates before it was bought out
by VCA, and then worked for 5 years at Cardiopet Veterinarian Referral
Center in New Jersey. Dr. Walters special area of interest is endoscopy
and she will be available to perform both endosopic exams (visual tissue
inspection) as well as harvesting tissue biopsies from the stomach,
proximal intestines, and colon. She has also retrieving various foreign
objects from the stomachs of many dogs and cats which has saved them from
an exploratory surgery. |
