After five decades, Sitka's pro bono veterinary practice closes its doors

After five decades, Sitka's pro bono veterinary practice closes its doors

“I did it for the animals,” says Burgess Bauder of his fifty-one year veterinary practice. “I didn’t do it for the people.” While Burgess didn’t charge for his services, clients usually reimbursed him (at wholesale rates) for costly medications or anesthetics. This is not to say he didn’t try to be a regular paid veterinarian at the beginning. “(I’d) charge somebody an office call back in the day when I first came to town (in 1973) five bucks, a…

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