I’m here to work with you on this, but I’m not gonna be treated, offer a treatment that I think is the best and then have you decide on a medical thing.” I said, “We can discuss it, but you’re not the final word on it.” How important would you… Read More
let me finish, then what with all this come about, we decided, I said at another meeting, “Our problem is we have to decide what’s yours, mine, and ours.” And that’s, I think that’s still the key. What’s in your prerogative, and I respect that 100%, you know, I’ll talk… Read More
Is it eating today?” if I saw him, but, you know, eyeballing it and then walking out. And then I would get stuff like that that would say, and I’d get called in the meeting, this is early on, they’d say, “I saw Dr. Bush go into the small mammal… Read More
I wouldn’t be going behind the lines, I wouldn’t be treating anything, I’d just maybe talk to a keeper and say, “How’s this animal doing?… Read More
Well, I think long time ago I developed a phrase that I think maybe answers that, ’cause I would sit through these things sometimes, I remember when I was first starting, and there was some conflicts with the curators, like I would have a resident, and a couple of students,… Read More
How can these conflicts be worked through, and what advice would you give to new veterinarians to work through these conflicts, if they occurred on their watch?… Read More
Oh, are there?… Read More
Yeah, let me take some notes, I hadn’t heard of that. Between scientific staff and others, territorial disputes are common in the zoos. Read More
‘Cause you had kind of a large staff. I didn’t have that large of a staff. I’ve only had one or two associates and mainly, you know, interns and residents. And being the alpha one, I didn’t have a problem. I listened to ’em, because your goal is to teach… Read More
Well, they should have had a pet sometime in their lifespan, they should be an animal person, that knows how to handle themselves around an animal, that’s not scared of animals, that exudes confidence, you know, to both themselves, and also their keepers, and then keeper leaders, and just knows… Read More
Have you in your career had to mediate between veterinarians, who may have had different opinions on courses of action?… Read More
What does that mean?… Read More
And to me it might mean one of a kind, but does it mean — No, it’s like a collection thing, like a Rembrandt painting, you know, he’s got certain, there’s specific Rembrandts around the world that are, you know, cherished and held in high esteem, and have to be… Read More
What do you think are the top qualities curators should have today?… Read More
How did that come?… Read More
I think they can do it through the education that we talked about. You know, by having certain species, and I think they can serve as an important part is maybe holding surplus animals to maybe a surplus endangered species, you know, when you have too many males born, a… Read More
Is that your — No, I don’t think I can take credit for that. I’m parroting somebody else’s. I think it was maybe, was it John Eisenberg, or something we were talking about, you know, where we were gonna go and you know, okay, well we’ve gotta have certain Rembrandt… Read More
How do you see a small or a medium-sized zoo dealing or being involved with wildlife conservation?… Read More
Not specifically with the government, we were asked to, you know, freedom of information, and they were trying to hammer me one time on the care of the giant panda, and we’re doing some stuff, and what I learned there is that the unfortunate thing with the freedom of information,… Read More
Can they do it from a medical standpoint, or any other standpoint?… Read More