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Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 148

The giant pandas in Mexico, one time I flew down there to help them with a baby that had just been born. They had one born, and by the time I got there, it died. And so I had to do the autopsy on the giant panda cub. Next time… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 149

And I said, “I think we got a problem here.” And we had hundreds of people around, you know, they all had their white coats, and they were, you know … And so I did a biopsy of a lymph node, we gotta take a lymph node out. So I… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 145

And I’d be hitting him in the mouth with the fire hose and stuff like this. And then she’d look up periodically, make sure I was still there. And finally, we got the male separated, he chewed her up something terrible. But fortunately she pulled through, and then we went… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 144

Ugh … Oh yes, the breeding of the giant pandas, it was like amateur night in the backseat of a drive-in movie. There was just no natural breeding, and then that, of course, they, we wanted to do the natural breeding for a couple of years, and that didn’t work. Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 146

He was, I went down and saw the guy, he was, did you ever meet him?… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 141

Because I think, I believe they lost a giant panda recently in Japan under anesthesia, and they’ve changed the situation now that a Chinese veterinarian has to be there if possible, during an anesthesia. I haven’t had to work under that situation. I worked with, I anesthetized the pandas at… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 143

Were there any frustrations with that?… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 142

Were you involved in those kind of discussions on what to do?… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 138

Yeah, a certain amount, yeah, we had some, I got my picture on the front of the LA Times doing the biopsy of the female’s kidney. So that was, I made the LA Times’ front page, so …… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 139

Did the Chinese have representatives always there?… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 140

No, they didn’t. The classic thing is when the Chinese brought it over, and they were bringing it over, I was talking to ’em about what diseases, what, you know, what things they, and of course the contingencies that come over were all just diplomats that we’re getting their junket… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 136

So don’t tell me it’s comparing to anesthetizing the …” And so I would just almost get cataleptic about doing it, and finally I said, “It’s gotta be done.” I said, “Who else do you want anesthetizing it with you?” And I said, “You’ve gotta do it.” So went ahead… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 135

Okay, I guess I’m gonna have to start a monologue on that one. Well, I was there about four or five months, and it was announced that Nixon was bringing over the giant pandas, and I went to a meeting in Las Vegas, and Chuck Sedgwick was giving something and… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 137

So while you’re doing this, you had a lot of people looking over your shoulder?… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 133

What kind of pressures did you feel, or did you feel that you were under, and how was the relationship with the people who were bringing the panda?… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 132

You know, their gut is so specialized for handling bamboo and they probably have a flora in there that is attuned to bamboo. And if we kill that flora with chloromycetin, I think we’re gonna have a heck of a lot more problems.” Ted, and the lights came in and… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 134

Or, what kind of freedom did you have to be the doctor?… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 129

Oh yeah. I was working seven days a week. Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 131

Ted Reed. Ted Reed was a veterinarian, and Ted was an interesting person. He kept saying veterinary medicine has passed him by, but as he became a Director, but you talked to Ted, and Ted would know what was going on, and Ted treated a few cases when none of… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 130

Who was Director of the zoo department?… Read More

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