Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. For more great interviews listen to The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky , weekdays from 6:30am on Virgin Radio, or catch up on-demand here . He said the same thing to a Guardian journalist a few years ago about another of his books — as an intimacy device, it’s disarming). Fitzpatrick added: “I have written more than a hundred scientific papers and a few other books here and there, but all pale by comparison with what Keira, my best friend in the whole world, gifts to all of us in these pages.

Discover the incredible stories of the brave animals he has worked with, from Peanut, the world’s first cat with two front bionic limbs, to Betsy, the six-month-old cockapoo, who was given a new lease of life when her crushed paw was replaced with a skateboard wheel! Anyway, what Fitzpatrick advocates is studying naturally occurring disease in animals and using that data to help advance human medicine, rather than artificially inducing disease in healthy animals. This hotel was formerly Ballyfin College, the boarding school where as a day student, Fitzpatrick was badly bullied as a boy and has very unhappy memories. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Professor Noel Fitzpatrick joined The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky to talk about his latest autobiography, Beyond Supervet. It is animals like these who have taught Noel the valuable lessons of Love, Hope and Faith - lessons that have sustained him in his life beyond being the Supervet. This is the remarkable story of one man and the animals he has saved, animals who have - in turn - saved him.

It has been 30 years since Noel Fitzpatrick graduated as a veterinary surgeon, and that 22-year-old from Ballyfin, Ireland, is now one of the leading veterinary surgeons in the world.Inspiring and healing in equal measure, this beautifully illustrated and deeply heartfelt story of Noel and Keira's journey together teaches us all how to embrace the ups with the downs, the joy and the sorrow, the darkness and the light, that make up a life. In 2022, Noel Fitzpatrick revealed that he was sexually abused as a child and later bullied in his very personal memoir Beyond Supervet. Beyond Supervet offers an antidote to the hectic whirlwind of modern living, bringing us back to the earthed basics, and showing that, at the end of the day, love really is all that matters. He reflects on the valuable lessons of Integrity, Care, Love and Hope that they have taught him – lessons that have sustained him through the unbelievable highs and crushing lows of a profession where lives are quite literally at stake.

Professor Noel Fitzpatrick has been at the forefront of ground-breaking veterinary surgery for decades now, pioneering neuro-orthopaedic surgeries for animals and promoting an idea he terms ‘One Medicine with his Humanimal Trust’ (more about that to follow).Globally recognised for his innovative surgical solutions for animals, Noel has developed dozens of new techniques, including many world-firsts, that have provided hope where none seemed possible.

VIRGIN and the VIRGIN signature logo are registered trademarks of Virgin Enterprises Limited and are used under licence. Going far beyond the boundaries of his successful television show, The Supervet, Noel explores how caring for animals really can help heal us all and how we are at the crossroads of an epic revolution in modern medicine, filled with hope, if we can get out of our own way. He asks me what I think about the book, and tells me I am the very first person outside his immediate circle and his publishers to see it. A remarkable story of one man and the love of his life - the animals he has saved, animals who have in turn saved him.The book is full of imaginary conversations between himself and the dog: “The day’s worries bled into nightmares. Professor Noel Fitzpatrick is a world-renowned neuro-orthopaedic veterinary surgeon, the founder of Fitzpatrick Referrals in Surrey, the star of the hit Channel 4 television show The Supervet, and author of the No. About the Author: Professor Noel Fitzpatrick is a world-renowned neuro-orthopaedic veterinary surgeon, the founder of Fitzpatrick Referrals in Surrey, the star of the hit Channel 4 television show The Supervet, and author of the No. Brand new and unread first UK edition hardback book with an unclipped dustwrapper published in 2020 by Trapeze in near fine condition with a thin crease to the right hand side of the inner front flap on the wrapper which is more evident on the reverse of the flap which I have tried to show in the last two photographs. When Chris asked what comes next for the Supervet, Noel replied: “What’s next, is let’s try and change the world, and I’m not joking.