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Diagnostic testing is rarely a one-size-fits-all proposition. Here’s what you need to know.
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A veterinarian uses a CBC to look at all the cell types (RBCs, WBCs, and platelets) and their size, shape, and composition. | Photo: Erica Larson

Let’s take a test. 

Got your No. 2 pencil? 

Here we

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Christy Corp-Minamiji, DVM

Christy Corp-Minamiji, DVM, practices large animal medicine in Northern California, with particular interests in equine wound management and geriatric equine care. She and her husband have three children, and she writes fiction and creative nonfiction in her spare time.

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