Changing Tides
Oct 16, 2018
4 minutes
—Krista Karlson
Heather Barron sees patients every day. With each new admission, her staff determines which patients need the most urgent help, and which are beyond saving. It’s an important, if morbid, role for any emergency room doctor. Only Barron is no ordinary doctor. Her patients are sea turtles.
The Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW) in Sanibel, Florida, where Barron is the medical and research director, has admitted 3,688 patients so far this year. (Yes, they’re called patients.) The case load is up 10 percent from 2017, and there are currently four times the number of sea turtles in rehabilitation as usual. Barron says that’s no
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