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Raymond J. Ramirez received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree in 1986 from the University of Illinois.  He first worked in a Chicagoland Emergency clinic for a year, then when he married Kelly, they moved to Milwaukee, WI to work in a regular daytime American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) hospital. He started doing relief (locum tenes, or 'temp') work in 1989 when that practice purchase fell through. He started doing relief (temp) work for other veterinarians in 1989 throughout Wisconsin until he found 'the perfect practice'. It was an interesting and wonderful experience, as he worked from Kenosha, Racine, Mosinee, and of course, Milwaukee. Their oldest daughter, Natalie, was born in St Luke's hospital in Milwaukee. When his Dad, who lived in Springfield, IL, was diagnosed with bladder cancer, he found it hard to get back to visit with the new family, so they moved (1 child at the time) to Maroa, Illinois in 1994. He continued doing relief work, as it was interesting to get the opportunity to help fellow veterinarians take time for family, and to attend continuing education conferences.  The major focus for him was to be at home with the family at night. He was able to help practices in Champaign, Urbana, Springfield, Bloomington, Normal, Decatur, Pekin, Peoria, Clinton, and throughout the state of Illinois and Wisconsin. As his family activities changed, and he saw his time away from home increase, he realized that is not how he and Kelly wanted to raise and spend time with their family. When the opportunity to continue veterinary practice in a high quality facility like Lakeview Veterinary Clinic, he decided to buy the practice. So, in December 2007, he purchased Lakeview Veterinary Clinic. Some of the times that Dr Ramirez is not available for appointments are because he does take off for his children's birthdays, so he can spend the day with them. Check out the Blog for the latest birthday plans. :-) He has also published articles in several magazines. He has written about his Queen Anne Victorian and caring for and modernizing it in the online magazine, Oldhousechronicle.org, and in Veterinary Economics he wrote an article on how and why to hire a relief veterinarian. The entire article is available here. Trying to boil down the past 20 years of Veterinary experience in such a short time is hard, and  there are things that are missed. Our town's sesquicentennial celebration (150 years) was a lot of fun, and he was able, along with his friend David Williams, to portray one of the town's infamous people during the cemetery walk. This picture is one of his favorites. He is sure to bring up previous opportunities he has been blessed to participate in, so look at the Blog site as he thinks that will give him the chance to share past experiences with these current ones.
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