BLACKSBURG, Va., March 26 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Patti Sura DVM '02, got to work on a Monday morning in January and learned she had about an hour to preparefor surgery.
Her patient was Aloka, a rescue dog from India who had captured the country's attention as the companion of Buddhist monks on a 2,300-mile Walk for Peace from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C. He had a torn ligament in his right knee. He needed surgery, and millions of people were watching.
Sura, a board-certified veterinary surgeon at Charleston Veterinary Referral Center in South Carolina,hadperformed thousands of these procedures. The surgerywasn'twhat made her nervous. The spotlight was.
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