News Profiles 15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Dr. Melinda McCall discusses ‘Driving Home Naked’ By Lisa Foust Prater Lisa Foust Prater Lisa Foust Prater is the Family & Farmstead Editor for Successful Farming, sharing interesting family features, heartfelt editorial columns, and important health and safety information. Her favorite thing about her job is meeting interesting people, learning their stories, and sharing them with our readers.Lisa started her career with Successful Farming magazine in 1999, working primarily for the web team and writing product reviews for the magazine. She later wrote for the Living the Country Life magazine and website and has written and edited several cookbooks and other books for Successful Farming and Living the Country Life. Successful Farming's Editorial Guidelines Published on May 13, 2024 Close After years of working as a large-animal veterinarian in rural Virginia, Dr. Melinda McCall shares her funniest and most heart-wrenching stories in a new memoir, “Driving Home Naked and Other Misadventures of a Country Veterinarian.” We had a quick conversation about her book, the challenges she has faced in a male-dominated field, the importance of mentors, and mental health concerns for veterinarians. Dr. Melinda McCall, DVM I’m choosing to tell the story of a career that’s not really clean. We're not the white-coat doctors. If you go put a uterus back in a cow, you're going to wear it, and nine times out of 10, you aren’t going to have water to wash it off. — Dr. Melinda McCall, DVM Listen to this episode of 15 Minutes With a Farmer below or on Apple Podcasts — where you can also listen to past episodes and subscribe — or wherever you listen to podcasts. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit