Richard H. Pitcairn
Since 2006 I've been living with my wife Susan Hubble Pitcairn (a professional artist) in Sedona, Arizona. I am retired from active practice but I continue to teach, offering a year long course in veterinary homeopathy to licensed veterinarians.
I'm often asked how I became interested in alternative approaches to veterinary medicine. Here's how it happened:
I graduated from veterinary school in 1965, from the University of California at Davis, California. Starting in a mixed practice (small animals, farm animals, horses, circus animals) I saw a wide variety of health problems and also learned much more how to manage cases. But I did not see the results that I expected to have using the treatments learned in veterinary school and this, to me,
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