House calls
Dr. Daniel Olson with a feline patient, above, and with his own pet parrot Bonny, below. Dr. Daniel Olson provides palliative care for your pets at home DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer taffet@dallasvoice.com Dr.
Daniel Olson has been making house calls for more than two years now. He mostly works in his Oak Lawn neighborhood but also ventures out to Uptown, Lakewood and even Oak Cliff.
The young doctor said he’s hopes he’s leading the way for his generation to bring back a type of in-home medical care that was lost 30 or maybe even 50 years ago.
Oh, but there is one stipulation — Olson is a veterinarian. Those house calls he’s making are for your dogs and cats. Olson started his practice doing hospice work: alleviating pain, helping a dog suffering from seizures, helping as an animal’s arthritis worsened.
