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Article: Blackfoot, Mont., Veterinarian Keeps Busy Covering Reservation.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- March 28, 2000
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Mar. 27--BLACKFOOT, Mont.--Ethel Johnson says she's known since the fifth grade that she'd be a veterinarian.
Growing up on a ranch on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Johnson was always surrounded by animals, so caring for them was a natural part of being a kid.
"The inspectors would come out and check for brucellosis and I was fascinated by that," she recalls. The disease, dreaded by cattlemen throughout the West, can cause cows to prematurely abort their fetuses.
While it took awhile, Johnson's interest in animals parlayed into a career that often keeps her on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Time off is infrequent, she says, and ...