Resiliency Makes the Cut for Army Veterinarian

Dr. Michael Bartosh, a veterinarian for the past 36 years, said his daughter, Madison, always knew she would follow his footsteps.

“What do you do with a two-year-old in your practice?” he asked. “She tags along, she did everything I did. She kind of grew up in the clinic.”

Today, she’s a captain in the United States Army, where she serves as a doctor of veterinary medicine.

“He wanted me to be a people-doctor,” she says with a smile, confidently declaring him her best teacher. “My dad’s an old-school, rural veterinarian. You learn a lot with someone like that.”

As a teenager, an explosion at a fertilizer plant in her hometown of West, Texas devastated the community. Bartosh’s father said she found purpose in the aftermath as a Red Cross volunteer…. Read More