I think our key advancement that I see in veterinary medicine for me has been the ability to safely anesthetize animals, to give us access to them for diagnostic and treatment, and also for the research. Because if you can’t safely anesthetize an animal, you know, a lot of people aren’t gonna give you access to animals to do research on, your curators and keepers are gonna bock, it’s saying, “Well if you anesthetize the animal, you’re losing 20% of ’em due to the anesthesia, not the disease you’re looking for.” So to me, I think it’s anesthesia, the development of new drugs, understanding how new drugs work, developing our monitoring equipment to, so that we understand the physiology of the animal, and also just how to better support an animal that is under anesthesia to enhance its chances of waking up and not having a detrimental effect on from the anesthesia.
